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Independence and Partition of India — Question 10

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Question 10

What was the most important but tragic provision of the Mountbatten Plan? To whom was the power to be transferred according to the Mountbatten Plan?

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The most important but tragic provision of the Mountbatten Plan was the transfer of power without any delay and partition of the country into two dominions.

According to the Mountbatten Plan the transfer of power in India could be on the basis of the partition of the country. Power would be transferred to one whole or more States.