History & Civics
With reference to the picture given here answer the questions that follow:
(a) Identify the Viceroy in the picture.
(b) What was the definite object of sending him to India?
(c) Fill in the blanks:
After many consultations with important leaders, he announced his Plan on …….. June 1947. He was convinced that transfer of power to Indians could only be on the basis of …………. of the country.
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(a) The picture shows Viceroy Lord Mountbatten.
(b) Lord Mountbatten had been sent with the definite object of transferring power to India. He was to advise the Government in England as to which of the two Plans should be chosen—the one which preserved the unity of India, but gave the maximum powers to Provinces, or the other which divided India into two independent States.
(c) After many consultations with important leaders, he announced his Plan on 3rd June 1947. He was convinced that transfer of power to Indians could only be on the basis of partition of the country.
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