Lord Mountbatten Plan

Lord mountbatten worked out a detailed plan for the transfer of power to the indian people the salient features of the mountbatten plan were as follows 1 muslim dominated areas may be separated to form a dominion in that case such a domination would be constituted by a partition of bengal and the punjab.

Lord mountbatten plan. Although its claim that mountbatten was motivated by pique at being sacked as chief of the defence staff is incorrect mountbatten retired naturally in 1965 at the age of 65 there were certainly plans for such a coup. It is an important topic from upsc gs is view. The main purpose of the mountbatten plan was the partition of india. Maulana azad was however vehemently opposed to the plan.

The crown s mountbatten warms quickly to the. On june 3 1947 lord mountbatten put forward his plan which outlined the steps for the solution of indias political problem. The fifth episode of the third series of the crown coup discusses the possible involvement in 1968 of lord mountbatten in a potential coup against the labour government of harold wilson. Bengal and punjab will be partitioned and a referendum in nefp north east frontier province and sylhet district of assamwould be held.

It was announced at a press conference by mountbatten on 3 june 1947 when the date of independence 15 august 1947 was also announced. The actual division of british india between the two new dominions was accomplished according to what has come to be known as the 3 june plan or mountbatten plan. India to be divided into india and pakistan. Lord mountbatten indias last viceroy proposed a plan in may 1947 according to which provinces were to be declared independent successor states with the power to choose whether to join the constituent assembly or not.

According to the show shortly after mountbattens forced retirement he was approached by a group plotting to unseat prime minister harold wilson.