Key figures and organisations Flashcards
Unionist party
Promoted unity and opposed Britain’s objective to divide and conquer India
Wanted Dominion status and a federal constitution for India as a whole
Patel
Didn’t oppose Pakistan
India is already divided and that there is already a ‘de facto Pakistan’
Tara Singh
Sikh leader who blamed Muslims for the split of Punjab
Mountbatten
Charismatic, member of the royal family, could relate to the Princes while being persuasive and charming
Realised the severity of the situation so focused on the evacuation of Europeans, rushing the drawing of the lines
Took 7/18 months given to free India
Admiral Viscount of Burma: Experienced in the East
Sir Cyril Radcliffe
Inexperienced in India’s affairs
Selected as an impartial legal official
Severely underestimated the problems with carelessly dividing the states
Was given 5 weeks
Wavell
Had a military career
Given the task of calming India and stopping the unrest
Lord Curzon
1899-1905
Partition of Bengal
Lord Minto
1905-0910
Indian Councils Act 1909
Lord Hardinge
1910-1916
Declared war on behalf of India
Reversed the partition of Bengal in 1911
1912 faced an assassination attempt
Enforced the DOIA
Lord Chelmsford
1916-1921
Rowlatt Acts
Montagu Declaration
Lucknow pact
Lord Reading
1921-1926
Back to Basics satyagraha: Offered provincial autonomy to stop the campaign
Sentenced Gandhi to 6 years
Communal violence 1923-25
Lord Irwin
1926-1931
Salt March
Arrested 60,000 INC members
Worked under 3 governments:
- Baldwin
- MacDonald
- Coalition
Lord Willingdon
1931-1936
Most repressive
Imprisoned Gandhi immediately upon his return to India
Effectively shut down the 1932 Civil disobedience
Lord Linlithgow
1936-1944
Declaration of war 1939
Failed to deal with the Bengal Famine
Lord Wavell
1944-1947
Military background
Effectively dealt with the Bengal Famine, challenging Churchill
Simla conference
Saw through the Labour-Congress Axis
