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With reference to the above newspaper article, state any two reasons for the acceptance of the Mountbatten Plan. Competency Focused Practice Questions History and Civics Solutions ICSE Class 10.

With reference to the above newspaper article, state any two reasons for the acceptance of the Mountbatten Plan.

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Two reasons for the acceptance of the Mountbatten Plan were:

  1. Large scale communal riots engulfed the whole country. The only solution to the communal problem was the Partition of India.
  2. The only alternative to Partition was a Federation with a weak centre. A smaller India with a strong central authority was better than a bigger state with a weak centre.