India

Question 1

Cripps Mission

Answer 1

April 1942

Promised India dominion status ‘upon the cessation of hostilities’

Question 2

How much did the British owe India at the end of WWII?

Answer 2

£1.3 billion

Needed to stay on good terms after the war in order to negotiate favourable terms for repayment

Question 3

General elections after WWII

Answer 3

December 1945 and January 1946

Question 4

Muslim League in elections after WWII

Answer 4

Won 80% of all Muslim-reserved seats
Took office in Sind and Bengal
Showed that they had a clear mandate for Pakistan

Question 5

Cabinet Mission Scheme

Answer 5

May 1946
Stated that Muslim Pakistan would not be economically viable
Proposed a system in which provinces would be able to form almost autonomous groups but still within a united India

Question 6

Muslim League Council voted to agree to the CMS

Answer 6

June 1946

Question 7

Nehru stated that CMS would be seen as a transitional stage

Answer 7

11 June 1946

Angered Muslim League

Question 8

Jinnah called for Direct Action Day

Answer 8

16 August 1946

‘But now…we bid goodbye to constitutional methods’

Question 9

Violence following Direct Action Day spread to Bombay

Answer 9

September 1946

Question 10

Violence following Direct Action Day spread to Dacca, east Bengal and Bihar

Answer 10

October 1946

Question 11

Violence following Direct Action Day spread to Punjab, Lahore and Gujurat Lord

Answer 11

1947

Question 12

Mountbatten arrived in India

Answer 12

March 1947

Question 13

Mountbatten Plan

Answer 13

3 June 1947

All party leaders announced that they had agreed on the nature of the transfer of power

Question 14

Terms of the Mountbatten Plan

Answer 14

London barrister, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, would lead a boundary commission to decide the line between Pakistan and India (known as the Radcliffe line)
NWFP – had a plebiscite (50.99% of people voted in favour of Pakistan)
Bengal and the Punjab – if a majority in either provincial legislature voted for partition of these areas, it would go ahead (Congress had been told to vote in favour of partition)
Princely states were able to decide which to join

Question 15

Attlee had announced that the British would withdraw in June 1948

Answer 15

20 February 1947

Question 16

Mountbatten brought the date of withdrawal forward

Answer 16

June 1947 he brought it forward to 15 August 1947

Question 17

Indian Independence Day

Answer 17

15 August 1947

Question 18

What were jathas?

Answer 18

30 men strong groups of Sikhs in the Punjab

Question 19

Boundary force in the Punjab

Answer 19

20,000 men but they could not protect over 17,000 villages

Question 20

Number of refugees who arrived in Indian Punjab

Answer 20

More than 1/2 million

Bankrupted the province

Question 21

Sikhs were knifed to death at a train station waiting to leave what was about to become Pakistan

Answer 21

14 August 1947

38 Sikhs killed

Question 22

Temple was set on fire in Lahore

Answer 22

14 August 1947

Hundreds more Sikhs killed

Question 23

Muslim women in the Punjab were raped and murdered

Answer 23

15 August 1947

Question 24

Muslims were shot by the Punjabi boundary force

Answer 24

20 August 1947

84 Muslims

Question 25

Punjabi boundary force turned on each other

Answer 25

24 August 1947

Question 26

Number of Muslims massacred on a train

Answer 26

4000

Question 27

Number of people killed overall in the aftermath of partition

Answer 27

1 million people

Question 28

All but three princely states had decided to become part of the Indian Union by…

Answer 28

1950

Question 29

Junagadh (princely state)

Answer 29

Wanted to join Pakistan but Indian army ‘invaded’

Question 30

Hyberbad (princely state)

Answer 30

Wanted to remain independent but Indian army invaded and the area was militarily annexed in September 1948

Question 31

Kashmir (princely state)

Answer 31

Large Muslim population but Hindu leadership so highly contested
Caused Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-48 after which Kashmir became part of India