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ICSE Class 10 History & Civics Question 2 of 14

Independence and Partition of India — Question 6

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Question 6

What arguments did the Cabinet Mission give to reject Jinnah's proposal of Pakistan?

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Muslim League's demand for Pakistan was rejected by the Cabinet Mission for the following reasons:

  1. The establishment of Pakistan would not solve the problem of communal minorities because the number of Muslims in the remaining part of British India and the number of non-Muslims in Pakistan would be sizeable.
  2. There was no justification for including within Pakistan, the non-Muslim districts of Bengal, Assam and the Punjab.
  3. The armed forces, transportation as well as the postal and telegraph system had been built for India as a whole and the partition would create many problems.
  4. The Princely States would find it difficult to decide which Union to join.
  5. The two halves of the proposed Pakistan State would be separated by some seven hundred miles and interaction between them would be difficult.