Constitutional Negotiations and Administrative Research Documents

Sub title : Includes Muslim League Working Committee Resolution on the Cabinet Mission Plan

Subject: Cabinet Mission Plan | His Majesty's Government Statement | Constituent Assembly | Grouping Scheme

Date of publication: 1945

Language: English

Page: 68 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 28356

Keyword: All-India Muslim League Working Committee -- Cabinet Mission Plan -- Grouping Scheme -- Constituent Assembly

Abstract: This collection centers on high-stakes constitutional negotiations in the two years preceding Partition. It features the detailed resolution of the All-India Muslim League Working Committee (early 1947) dissecting the British Government's December 1946 statement, which upheld the League's interpretation of the Cabinet Mission's grouping scheme, and criticizing the Congress's refusal to accept it. It includes the crucial 1945 correspondence between Lord Wavell and M.A. Jinnah regarding the formation of an interim Executive Council, where Jinnah insists on the League's sole right to nominate Muslim members.

Description: This collection captures the legalistic and diplomatic battlefront of the Pakistan movement in its final phase. The core Working Committee resolution demonstrates the League's strategic use of the British government's own clarifications to corner the Congress and justify its boycott of the Constituent Assembly. The 1945 Simla correspondence reveals Jinnah's unwavering demand for recognition as the sole representative of Indian Muslims. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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