Cabinet Mission (Pethick-Lawrence, Cripps, Alexander) May 1946: rejects Pakistan, proposes a federal union limited to defence, foreign affairs and communications, three groups of provinces, constituent assembly elected by provincial assemblies, interim government
Whole chapter · 10–16 focused hours
Towards freedom 1939-1947
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained modern history. Later chronological chapters assume earlier phases have been studied. History optional and basic literacy remediation are outside this plan.
Includes
- Selected primary readings and historical maps/source extracts
- A short chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book, appendix or optional exercise in full
- Exclude detailed Second World War history and the separately assigned Partition consequences.
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
Where to study this topic
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 ↗
ch. 8 The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947, Towards Independence and Partition, p. 17 (printed 109)
- Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond ↗
Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 4. Quit India, p. 19 (printed 304)
- India's Struggle for Independence 1857-1947 (Bipan Chandra and others), OCR text of the Digital Library of India scan, Internet Archive item in.ernet.dli.2015.130998 ↗
ch. 37 Freedom and Partition, pp. 487-504
- UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus, Modern History (GS SCORE) ↗
heading: Indian National Movement III (1930-1947)
Whole chapter reading
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 ↗
Wartime struggle and the movement towards independence
- Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond ↗
Quit India, negotiations and the final independence passages
- India’s Struggle for Independence, publisher edition record ↗
Chapters 34–37, from wartime offers through transfer of power; skip the duplicated social analysis of Partition; select the passages relevant to this chapter rather than rereading events assigned elsewhere.
Book required - Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 7, chapters 1–3: wartime struggle, post-war movement and transfer of power.
Book required