TNPSC Indian National Movement (INM) Free Notes- Rajaji Proposals & Wavell Plan

இந்தக் கட்டுரையில், TNPSC குரூப் 1, குரூப் 2, குரூப் 2A, குரூப் 4 மாநிலப் போட்டித் தேர்வுகளான TNUSRB, TRB, TET, TNEB போன்றவற்றுக்கான  முறைகள் இலவசக் குறிப்புகளைப் பெறுவீர்கள்.தேர்வுக்கு தயாராவோர் இங்குள்ள பாடக்குறிப்புகளை படித்து பயன்பெற வாழ்த்துகிறோம்.

Rajaji Proposals & Wavell Plan

Demand for a Separate Nation
 The communal challenge persisted and the Muslim League pressed with its demand for
a separate nation.
 The Lahore resolution of the Muslim League in March 1940 had altered the discourse
from the Muslims being a ‘minority’ to the Muslims constituting a ‘nation’.
 Mohammed Ali Jinnah was asserting this right as the sole spokesperson of the
community.
Rajaji’s Proposals
 In April 1944, when the Congress leaders were in jail, C.Rajaji put out a proposal to
resolve the issue.
It contained the following:
 A post-war commission to be formed to demarcate the contiguous districts where
the Muslims were in absolute majority and a plebiscite of the adult population there
to ascertain whether they would prefer Pakistan.

 In case of a partition there would be a mutual agreement to run certain essential
services, like defence or communication.
 The border districts could choose to join either of the two sovereign states.
 The implementation of the scheme would wait till after full transfer of power.
 After his release from prison, Gandhi, in July 1944, proposed talks with Jinnah based on
what came to be the ‘Rajaji formula’. But no decision was taken.
Wavell Plan
 June 1945- Lord Wavell moved to negotiate and called for the Simla conference.
 The rest of the Congress leaders, including Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel and the
Congress president, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad were released from jail for this.
 Wavell had set out on this project in March 1945 and sailed to London.
 There he convinced Churchill of the imperative for a Congress–Muslim League coalition
government to deal with the post-war political crisis.

Viceroy’s Proposals
 The Viceroy’s proposal before the leaders of all political formations.
 The Congress and the Muslim League was setting up of an Executive Council, exclusively
with Indians along with himself and the commander-in-chief; equal number of
representatives in the council for the caste Hindus and the Muslims and separate
representation for the Scheduled Castes; and start of discussions for a new constitution.
 The proposal displeased everyone.
 The Simla Conference held between June 25, 1945 and July 14, 1945 ended without
resolution.
 The talks broke down on the right of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim
League to nominate members to the Viceroy’s Council.
Muslim League stand
 The Muslim League insisted on its exclusive right to nominate Muslim members to the
Council.
 Its demand was that the Congress nominees shall only be caste Hindus and that the
Indian National Congress should not nominate a Muslim or a member from the
Scheduled Caste
 This was a means to further the divide on communal lines and deny the Congress the
status of representing the Indian people.

 Lord Wavell found a council without Muslim League representation as unworkable and
thus abandoned the Simla talks.
 The years between the Lahore resolution of 1940 and the Simla Conference in 1945
marked the consolidation of a Muslim national identity and the emergence of Jinnah as
its sole spokesperson.
 Muslim League Legislators in Delhi in April 1946, that Pakistan was defined as a
‘sovereign independent state’.
 For the first time the League also declared its composition in geographical terms as ‘the
region consisting of the Muslim majority provinces of Bengal and Assam in the
Northeast and the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan in the
Northwest.
 The Congress president Maulana Abul Kalam Azad rejected this idea and held that the
Congress stood for a united India with complete independence.
 All these were developments after the Simla conference of June–July 1945 and after
Churchill was voted out and replaced by a Labour Party government headed by Clement
Attlee.
 British Prime Minister, Attlee had declared the certainty of independence to India with
only the terms left to be decided.

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