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Postwar Situation in India - Coggle Diagram
Postwar Situation in India
Economic
Continuing food shortages
Rising inflation
Unemployment
Switch to peacetime production in industry → lost many jobs
Growing civil unrest
Mutineers demand release of all political prisoners → started in Bombay naval base over racism + poor food, quickly spread
Communist Party support mutineers + organised workers’ strike in Bombay → 200+ civilians killed
Student protests, police strikes, postal strikes, threat of national rail strike, public protests abt INA soldiers’ trial
Diffs on postcolonial state
Congress: single, secular state
Muslims: creation of separate Muslim state
Congress weakened → govt suppression of ‘Quit India’ + imprisonment of Congress leaders during war
AIML strong negotiating position → fully support GB war effort so GB seriously considered ‘2 state solution’
1946 Elections
Congress won 90% votes for open seats + 8 in 11 provinces
AIML won all 30 in reserved seats for Muslims + 442/500 in provincial legislatures
Ramachandra Guha: Congress appealed to hope, AIML appealed to fear
GB had to recognise Jinnah’s claim that AIML represented all Muslims in India (bc of evidence from elections) during negotiations for power transfer in 1946-7
First elections since 1937