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ICSE Class 10 History & Civics Question 5 of 14

Independence and Partition of India — Question 9

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Question 9

Who was elected as the President of the Constituent Assembly in 1946? Name the last Viceroy of India. State one of his proposals with regard to the Princely States.

Answer

Dr. Rajendra Prasad was elected as the President of the Constituent Assembly in 1946.

Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy of India.

As regards the Princely States, the Mountbatten Plan stated that the treaties with them would come to an end. They would be free to associate themselves with either of the Dominions or to remain independent.