The Administrative Machinery of Partition: Official Correspondence and Steering Committee Reports Addressed to M.A. Jinnah

Sub title : Partition Council Memoranda, July 1947

Subject: India – History – Partition, 1947 | Administrative Procedure – India

Date of publication: 1947

Language: English

Page: 150 p.

Source: National Archives of Pakistan

Serial no: 27446

Keyword: Partition of India 1947 — Partition Council — Steering Committee | M.A. Jinnah — H.M. Patel — Armed Forces Reconstitution | Pakistan Government Departments — Administrative Division — Works Mines and Power — Education Department

Abstract: This collection comprises official memoranda and reports from the Government of India's Partition Office in July 1947, directly addressed to M.A. Jinnah. The documents detail the immense logistical and administrative task of dividing the assets and infrastructure of British India between the two future dominions. Key topics include the reconstitution of the Armed Forces with financial incentives for personnel, the establishment of new governmental departments for Pakistan (such as Education, and Works, Mines & Power), the division of the Railway Priority Organisation, and plans for maintaining law and order along the new borders.

Description: A vital set of primary sources that illuminate the day-to-day workings of the high-stakes administrative process behind the Partition of India. These documents, circulated for the approval of M.A. Jinnah and the Partition Council, reveal the practical considerations involved in creating a new nation, from determining the salary of a Warrant Officer to designing the structure of a central education department. They serve as a testament to the frantic and monumental effort to untangle the colonial state and establish two independent governments by the August 15, 1947 deadline. SCANNED BY: NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF PAKISTAN.

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