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Framing The Constitution

Question
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Describe the political framework of future India as suggested by the Cabinet Mission in 1946.

Solution

The Cabinet Mission recommended that:

(a) India should be a union or federation of British provinces and Indian states having control over foreign affairs, defence and communication. All subjects other than central subjects would be vested in the provinces.

(b) The British provinces would be divided into three groups. Group A consisting of Provinces having a Hindu majority, Group B with Muslim majority and Group C with mixed population.

(c) Each group could draft its own constitution. A Constituent Assembly would be set up to frame the Constitution of free India. Till the Constitution was framed and a new government formed, an interim government would carry out the administration.

(d) The Cabinet Mission sought to make a compromise between the conflicting claims of the Congress and Muslim League and maintain the unity of India, but the Muslim League criticised the plan because it rejected the idea of Pakistan.