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1940 partition of India
Viceroy Linlithgow proposed in August 1940 that India be granted a Dominion status after the war. Having not taken the Pakistan idea seriously, Linlithgow supposed that what Jinnah wanted was a non-federal arrangement without Hindu domination. -
1942
In 1942, the Prime Minister of Britain, sent Sir Stafford, with an offer of dominion status to India at the end of the war in return for the Congress's support for the war. Not wishing to lose the support of the allies they had already secured the Muslim League, offer included a clause stating that no part of the British Indian Empire would be forced to join the post-war Dominion. The League rejected the offer, seeing this clause as insufficient in meeting the principle of Pakistan. -
1945
General elections were held in British India in December 1945 to elect members of the Central Legislative Assembly and the Council of State. The Indian National Congress emerged as the largest party, winning 59 of the 102 elected seats. The Muslim League won all Muslim constituencies, but failed to win any other seats. -
1946
In 1946 mutinies broke out in the armed services,.In early 1946, new elections were held in India. With the announcement of the polls the line had been drawn for Muslim voters to choose between a united Indian State or Partition.British rule had lost its legitimacy for most Hindus, and conclusive proof of this came in the form of the 1946 elections with the Congress winning 91 percent of the vote among non-Muslim constituencies -
1947
The Partition of India of 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and the Dominion of Pakistan by an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. There were almost 200,000 to 2 million, 14 million displaced deaths.
