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“…instead of rejecting the plan (Cabinet Mission Plan), they (the Congress Leadership) resorted to a half-baked legalistic stratagem to reserve their position on its long-term arrangements and accepted its short-term provisions.” Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2014
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

The Cabinet Mission Plan (1946) was the last serious British attempt at a united-India settlement; the charge is that Congress neither embraced nor rejected it honestly but hedged through legal ambiguity.

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  • The Ambiguity at the Plan's Core
  • Congress's "Legalistic Stratagem"
  • Why Not Outright Rejection?
  • Consequences of the Stratagem

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