... position to the Viceroy in person. Menon informed Mountbatten that during Lord Wavell's time, when it seemed that agreement between Congress and the Muslim League, based on the Cabinet Mission Plan, seemed impossible, he had attempted to devise a fresh approach to the problem. In December 1946 or ... established such a close relationship with Menon, such that Menon could dash straight into his bedroom, this petty misunderstanding could have developed into a major crisis. Menon was also involved in the controversy concerning the announcement of the Radcliffe Awards. Sir Cyril Radcliffe ha...

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... the end of British rule became necessary and inevitable. However, while the Indian National Congress was calling for Britain to Quit India, the Muslim League, in 1943, passed a resolution for them to Divide and Quit. There were several reasons for the birth of a separate Muslim homeland in ... the subcontinent, and all three parties-the British, the Congress and the Muslim League-were responsible. The British had followed a divide-and-rule policy in India. Even in the census they categorized people according to religion and ... is accepted as the official second language as it won't gi...

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... volunteers, traveling widely throughout India attracting a following among pious Muslims. In December 1826 Sayyid Ahmad and his followers clashed with Sikh troops at Okara but with no decisive result. In a major battle near the town of Balakot in 1831, Sayyid Ahmad and Shah Ismail Shaheed with volunteer Muslims were defeated and martyred by the professional Sikh Army. The most closest colleague ... discrimination and ignoring the needs of common people across India. He also criticised Muslim politicians for focusing on communal issues before the national interest and rejected the Al...

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... the British Crown began, marking an end of the Mughal Empire of former India and Pakistan. In 1940, the Muslim League adopted "Pakistan Resolution,"" demanding a separate state on the sub-continent for Muslims. In 1946, the Muslim League proposed a direct action day, where they would synchronize mass rioting in the sub-continent. Legislation in the British Parliament called ... as other countries because of the diversion of resources and the orientation of its priorities, primarily being natural disasters and health problems. Environment related diseases or accidents remain among the majo...

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... and religious interest Indians and Indian Muslims. These premier bodies of nationalist opinion of India and Pakistan were the Indian National Congress and The Muslim League. With the passing of the Indian Independence Act 1947, all states were released from their obligations to the Crown. This later led to ... which eventually became responsible for actually ruling India in 1858 after the Great Rebellion. The power was then transferred to the British Crown. 1 Since the major challenge to the British rule was from the Muslims, they began a campaign of oppression and ideological warfare ag...

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... against them by whites, who knew nothing of Asian peoples and often misinterpreted their behavior. "In all cases, we may say the Oriental is at fault," declared the Asiatic Exclusion League, an organization whose goal was to keep Asian immigrants out of western states (Pavri 24). The Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, a winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, traveled to North ... the needs of the growing ethnic community (54). Although the immigrants were often called "Hindus" or "Hindoos" in America, many of them were not followers of Hinduism, one of the major religions of India. Som...

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