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The Lahore Resolution
The Lahore Resolution was written and prepared by Muhammad Zafarullah Khan and was presented by A. K. Fazlul Huq, the Prime Minister of Bengal, was a formal political statement adopted by the All-India Muslim League on the occasion of its three-day general session in Lahore on 22–24 March 1940. -
The Cripps Proposal
The Cripps Mission was a failed attempt in late March 1942 by the British government to secure full Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II. The mission was headed by a senior minister Sir Stafford Cripps. -
The quit India movement
The Quit India Movement, also known as the August Movement, was a movement launched at the Bombay session of the All-India Congress Committee by Mahatma Gandhi on 8 August 1942, during World War II, demanding an end to British Rule of India. -
The Jinnah-Gandhi talks
After his release, Gandhi proposed talks with Jinnah on his two-nation theory and negotiating on the issue of partition. The CR formula acted as the basis for the negotiations. Gandhi and Jinnah met in September 1944 to ease the deadlock. Gandhi offered the CR formula as his proposal to Jinnah. -
World War II comes to an end
After WW2, it became increasingly difficult for Britain to hold a colony as huge as India. In February of 1947, the British government declared that India would be granted independence by June 1948. -
Elections of 1945-46
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. -
The Cabinet Mission Plan
The Cabinet Mission came to India aimed to discuss the transfer of power from the British government to the Indian leadership, intending to preserve India's unity and grant it independence. -
The Direct Action day
Direct Action Day, also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings, was a day of widespread communal rioting between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta in the Bengal province of British India. The day also marked the start of what is known as The Week of the Long Knives. -
The Independence Act
DescriptionThe 1947 Indian Independence Act is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan. The Act received the royal assent on 18 July 1947 and thus India and Pakistan, comprising West and East regions, came into being on 15 August. -
Independence day
Independence Day, observed annually on 14 August, is a national holiday in Pakistan. It commemorates the day when Pakistan achieved independence and was declared a sovereign state following the end of the British Raj in 1947.
