Ancient history

• Pakistan has finally become

  Separate poison from Indias body On 7 August 1947, Jinnah went to Karachi on the Viceroys Dakota. On his way out, the Viceroy presented him with a Rolls Royce car and a Muslim ADC, Lieutenant Ahsan, and went to the airport to drop himself. Patel made a statement the day after Jinnahs departure-

• Ahmedpur Chaoroli

  The United Provinces (U.P.) created by the British is now called Uttar Pradesh (U.P.). Ahmedpur Chaoroli is a small village in the western part of this province. This village was about 10-12 kms from the Yamuna river flowing on the border of undivided Punjab and United Provinces. Huge fields of whea

• Radcliffe Commission draws dividing line

  Radcliffe Commission was constituted on 27 June 1947 to determine the boundaries of India and Pakistan. Its president was Sir Cyril Radcliffe, a famous English lawyer. Radcliffe reached Delhi on 8 July 1947. A board of four judges was appointed in each province to assist him. Half of these judges we

• Alternative governments for future countries

  Due to the absence of an elected legislative parliament in India, the Constituent Assembly was given the dual status of Parliament and the Constituent Assembly. Lord Mountbatten created two alternate governments out of the interim government that was running in India before the partition, which coul

• Formation of Partition Council

  To deal with the partition work efficiently, a partition council was formed under the chairmanship of the Viceroy, in which HM Patel as the representative of India and Chaudhry Mohammad Ali as the representative of Pakistan. Twenty committees and sub-committees were formed to assist him, in which th

• India Independence Act 1947

  The Indian Independence Bill was introduced in the British Parliament on 4 July 1947. It was passed without amendment by the House of Commons on 15 July and by the House of Lords on 16 July. It was signed by the British Emperor on 18 July 1947. There were a total of 20 sections of the Indian Indepen

• acceptance of partition of india

  Acceptance of partition of India in Congress session On 14 June 1947, in the meeting of the Congress General Committee (AICC), Govindvallabh Pant presented a proposal to accept the Mountbatten plan of partition of the country. This resolution had already been passed in the Congress Working Committ

• Attempt to assassinate Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  A meeting of the All India Muslim League was convened on 9-10 June 1947 at the Imperial Hotel in Delhi to consider the Mountbatten Plan. Four hundred delegates from all over the country participated in it. The league accepted the plan with a large majority. 400 members were present in the meeting, o

• Conspiracy to merge Jodhpur State with Pakistan (3)

  The Viceroy has accepted the facts sent by the Nawab of Bhopal as correct. Onkar Singh has believed on the basis of this description that Colonel Kesari Singh was not with the Maharaja at the time of the meeting of Jinnah and the Jodhpur king, otherwise the Nawab would have mentioned him. According

• Conspiracy to merge Jodhpur State with Pakistan (2)

  Menon went to the Imperial Hotel and told the Maharaja that Lord Mountbatten wanted to talk to him. Menon and Hanwant Singh went to the Viceroys building in the car. The Viceroy, with his charming personality and determination, spoke to the Maharaja like a teacher explains to his undisciplined stude

• Conspiracy to merge Jodhpur State with Pakistan (1)

  On 16 July 1947, V.P. Menon gave a telegram to Sir Patrick, the Deputy Secretary of India in England, that the Viceroy held talks with the representatives of Mysore, Baroda, Gwalior, Bikaner, Jaipur and Jodhpur about accession to India. All of them had a positive response. On 2 August 1947, Menon in

• Pakistani Trap on Indigenous States (4)

  Corefields efforts Conard Corfield was the Secretary of the Political Department of the Government of India and considered the princely states as the real India, with whom he had deep sympathy. Therefore, Corfield, through residents and political agents, inspired the native kings to remain separat

• Pakistani Trap on Indigenous States (3)

  Conspiracy of Bhopal Nawab Bhopal Nawab Hamidullah Khan was working covertly as a pro-Muslim, pro-Pakistan and anti-Congress, but when the partition of the country was certain, the Bhopal Nawab, the leader of the Third Front, opened his fist and apparently supported the divisive Muslim League. and

• Pakistani Trap on Indigenous States (2)

  handle your baby After the declaration of Indias independence, a cartoonist David Lows title Your Babies Now was published in the London Evening Standard, in which the problem of Indian kings before the national leaders of India was accurately depicted. In this cartoon, Nehru and Jinnah were shown

• Pakistani Trap on Indigenous States (1)

  apprehension from Congress in the minds of kings When the Indian Independence Act 1947 was declared, a provision was made in its section 8 that on 15 August 1947, the sovereignty of the British government over the native states would end and it would be transferred again to the native states. Many

• Pakistan came out by swimming in the river of blood (4)

  Captain Atkins and his Gurkha soldiers spent several weeks behind the security of the refugees. Caravans of Hindus would go to India and take caravans of Muslims to Pakistan. , Refugees would appear happy at the time of their departure, then as they progressed, they would become exhausted with hunge

• Pakistan came out by swimming in the river of blood (3)

  Michael Breecher has written that- Due to rumours, fear and frenzy, about one crore two million people were exchanged, half of whom were Hindus and half Muslims. Before the end of one year, about five lakh people either died or were killed. The streets of Delhi were filled with refugees. Moseley

• Pakistan came out by swimming in the river of blood (2)

  There were similar attacks on trains on both sides of India and Pakistan. On both sides the gender of man became his identity. Sikhs and Hindus in India killed every train passenger who was male and who had been circumcised. In Pakistan also the invaders would check the gender of every male travelle

• Attempts to grab Indian share

  When Pakistan could not get the Indian princely states on its side, it made attempts to annex the Muslim majority parts of India, in which it did not succeed. Invasion on Jaisalmer Out of the Rajputana princely states included in India, the boundaries of the princely states of Jodhpur, Bikaner an

• Sardar Patel shattered the dreams of Bhopal Nawab

  The princely state of Bhopal was established in AD 1723 by Dost Mohammad Khan, an Afghan officer of Aurangzebs army. At the time of Indias independence, the Nawab of Bhopal was Hamidullah Khan, who became the Nawab of Bhopal princely state in AD 1926. He was elected Chancellor of Narendra Mandal twi