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‘We are therefore unable to advise the British Government that the power which at present resides in British hands should be handed over to two entirely separate sovereign States.’

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  • Politics of Separatism

This statement, from the Cabinet Mission's memorandum of 16 May 1946, records the Mission's formal rejection of a fully sovereign Pakistan and its attempt to craft a middle path between unity and partition.

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  • The Mission's Reasoning Against a Sovereign Pakistan
  • The Alternative: A Three-Tier Grouping Scheme
  • Acceptance, Ambiguity, and Repudiation
  • From Cabinet Mission's Collapse to Partition

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