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Understanding Partition
Why did the Muslim League reject the Cripps proposals?
The Muslim League rejected the Cripps proposals because these proposals had no reference to the League’s demand of Pakistan. Another objection of the Muslim League was that the Cripps’ proposals had to be accepted or rejected in full and that nothing contained there could be changed.
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Why was British India partitioned?
How did women experience Partition?
How did the Congress come to change its views on Partition?
Examine the strengths and limitations of oral history. How have oral-history techniques furthered our understanding of Partition?
Find out about the ethnic violence that led to the partition of Yugoslavia. Compare your findings with what you have read about partition in this chapter.
Name the writer of ‘Sare Jahan Se Accha Hindustan Hamara’. What did he speak to the Muslim League in 1930 in his presidential address?
What did the Urdu poet Mohammad Iqbal meant by “North West Indian Muslim State”?
Why and when was the Cabinet Mission sent to India?
Why did the Muslim League reject the Cripps proposals?
What were the major features of the Indian Independence Act, 1947?
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