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2021Q31Independence and the Partition of India
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Which of the following was a reason for the acceptance of the Mountbatten plan?

Topic: Acceptance of the Mountbatten Plan

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(c) The only alternative to partition was a Federation with a weak Centre..

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The Congress judged that the only alternative to partition was a loose federation with a weak Centre — the arrangement the Cabinet Mission had proposed and the League insisted on — which would have left India divided in practice and unable to govern itself. A smaller but strong and united India was preferable. Option (b) states the opposite of the truth: it was precisely the League’s NON-cooperation inside the Interim Government that convinced the Congress a united India was unworkable.

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The only alternative to partition was a Federation with a weak Centre..

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