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Discuss as to why the Congress accepted the partition of India in 1947.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Politics of Separatism

The Congress's acceptance of Partition in June 1947 was not a sudden capitulation but the final step in a long sequence of concessions, forced upon it by communal violence, administrative breakdown, and the collapse of every alternative constitutional formula.

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  • Exhaustion After the Cabinet Mission's Collapse
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