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@ Anupam and LearnIndology: I need your help. This article is very confusing. I came here to understand what a neutral platform like Wikipedia states about Cabinet Mission, compared to what I learned growing up. However, lots of things are unanswered here.
Lots of things are unanswered, I want to hear your thoughts and guidance before I research and expand this article. Zakaria1978 ښه راغلاست ( talk) 16:40, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
Hindus in the Congress thought partition was a better option". -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 16:56, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
There are many interconnected issues entangled in the Cabinet Mission Plan. But perhaps it is best to focus one key element of it, viz., the issue of which provinces would go where. The CMP had stated clearly which provinces would go where: the present day Pakistan provinces (with undivided Punjab) would go to Group A. Bengal and Assam would go to Group C, and the remaining provinces would go to Group B.
Congress called it "compulsory grouping" and was opposed to it. In their view, Assam did not want to go into Group C and NWFP did not want to go into Group A.
So the Mountbatten version of the plan, which was called 'Plan Balkan' by his own staff, said there would be no compulsory grouping. All the provinces would initially become "independent" and then they would be free to join whichever group they wanted to, or even to remain outside them. Kulke and Rothermund called it 'opting in' rather than 'opting out'. [1] Evidently the result of this could have been Balkanisation. Mountbatten's Plan Balkan also envisaged that Punjab and Bengal would decide in two halves how to 'opt in' or not. (In fact, Mountbatten anticipated that Bengal might decide to stay joint and 'opt out' of grouping.) So it is unlikely to have please Jinnah either.
According to Luscombe & Fernando,
V. P. Menon had opposed the Plan Balkan. "He particularly opposed the notion that the provinces should initially become independent. If the plan were finally accepted, he said that he would resign.
"
[2] (Menon was a big shot in Wavell administration, but he appears to have been sidelined by Mountbatten.) Lady Mountbatten had heard about it, and arranged for him to go to Simla where it was expected that Nehru and Mountbatten would discuss the Plan Balkan in some form.
Menon had formulated a separate plan on the basis of Dominion status. It seems to have meant, "transfer power to two 'interim governments'; two constituent assemblies could carry on their work, but have a kind of 'super-government' in the shape of a common governor-general, with joint control of defence, external affairs and communications, and parity of representation between the Muslim League and the Congress and its allies in the committee which took decisions on these three subjects."
[3]
Neither the Plan Balkan nor the Menon Plan was fully published. We only have bits and pieces from here ane there. But it gives you an idea of the amount of juggling that was involved.
What became of the Menon Plan in Simla is what we finally have. He might have planned for one Dominion with two governments. But we ended up with two Dominions. He thought defence, external affairs and communications would be centralised, but they got devolved. Mountbatten did think there should be a common governor general till the constitutions were formulated. But Jinnah vetoed that later on.
But what nobody expected is that Colonels Akbar Khan and Sher Khan would soon launch invasion of Kashmir and everything would fall apart. [4] -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 18:33, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
References
Kautilya3, these are some fantastic sources and content. I can't thank you enough. My the questions are:
After, I plan to add this information based on what you provided to me with your guidance. Zakaria1978 ښه راغلاست ( talk) 23:43, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
References
Their main members 182.189.62.180 ( talk) 10:47, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
Cabinet mission 37.111.189.238 ( talk) 13:44, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
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@ Anupam and LearnIndology: I need your help. This article is very confusing. I came here to understand what a neutral platform like Wikipedia states about Cabinet Mission, compared to what I learned growing up. However, lots of things are unanswered here.
Lots of things are unanswered, I want to hear your thoughts and guidance before I research and expand this article. Zakaria1978 ښه راغلاست ( talk) 16:40, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
Hindus in the Congress thought partition was a better option". -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 16:56, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
There are many interconnected issues entangled in the Cabinet Mission Plan. But perhaps it is best to focus one key element of it, viz., the issue of which provinces would go where. The CMP had stated clearly which provinces would go where: the present day Pakistan provinces (with undivided Punjab) would go to Group A. Bengal and Assam would go to Group C, and the remaining provinces would go to Group B.
Congress called it "compulsory grouping" and was opposed to it. In their view, Assam did not want to go into Group C and NWFP did not want to go into Group A.
So the Mountbatten version of the plan, which was called 'Plan Balkan' by his own staff, said there would be no compulsory grouping. All the provinces would initially become "independent" and then they would be free to join whichever group they wanted to, or even to remain outside them. Kulke and Rothermund called it 'opting in' rather than 'opting out'. [1] Evidently the result of this could have been Balkanisation. Mountbatten's Plan Balkan also envisaged that Punjab and Bengal would decide in two halves how to 'opt in' or not. (In fact, Mountbatten anticipated that Bengal might decide to stay joint and 'opt out' of grouping.) So it is unlikely to have please Jinnah either.
According to Luscombe & Fernando,
V. P. Menon had opposed the Plan Balkan. "He particularly opposed the notion that the provinces should initially become independent. If the plan were finally accepted, he said that he would resign.
"
[2] (Menon was a big shot in Wavell administration, but he appears to have been sidelined by Mountbatten.) Lady Mountbatten had heard about it, and arranged for him to go to Simla where it was expected that Nehru and Mountbatten would discuss the Plan Balkan in some form.
Menon had formulated a separate plan on the basis of Dominion status. It seems to have meant, "transfer power to two 'interim governments'; two constituent assemblies could carry on their work, but have a kind of 'super-government' in the shape of a common governor-general, with joint control of defence, external affairs and communications, and parity of representation between the Muslim League and the Congress and its allies in the committee which took decisions on these three subjects."
[3]
Neither the Plan Balkan nor the Menon Plan was fully published. We only have bits and pieces from here ane there. But it gives you an idea of the amount of juggling that was involved.
What became of the Menon Plan in Simla is what we finally have. He might have planned for one Dominion with two governments. But we ended up with two Dominions. He thought defence, external affairs and communications would be centralised, but they got devolved. Mountbatten did think there should be a common governor general till the constitutions were formulated. But Jinnah vetoed that later on.
But what nobody expected is that Colonels Akbar Khan and Sher Khan would soon launch invasion of Kashmir and everything would fall apart. [4] -- Kautilya3 ( talk) 18:33, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
References
Kautilya3, these are some fantastic sources and content. I can't thank you enough. My the questions are:
After, I plan to add this information based on what you provided to me with your guidance. Zakaria1978 ښه راغلاست ( talk) 23:43, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
References
Their main members 182.189.62.180 ( talk) 10:47, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
Cabinet mission 37.111.189.238 ( talk) 13:44, 20 January 2023 (UTC)