Archive for March, 2008
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
After the failure of Jinnah-Gandhi negotiations, another attempt at reconciliation was made in June, 1945, this time by government, when British government presented its own proposals in the shape of the Lord Wavell plan. Lord Wavell invited representatives of major political parties to discuss his plan. The conference began in ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Gandhi now began to press for an immediate with drawl of the British from India and the transfer of power to the congress without a prior settlement with any other party. These ideas were formally adopted by the All-India Congress Committee meeting held at Bombay, on August 8, 1942, in ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
By March 1942, Second World War took new and unfavorable turn for the British and their allies. The Japanese advance in Burma was gradually but relentlessly closing the gap between Indian safety and Japanese arms. Singapore, the great allied bastion in the Far East, had fallen. Fortune certainly did not ...
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