Question

What arguments did the Cabinet Mission give to reject Jinnah's proposal of Pakistan?

Answer 1

• The establishment of Pakistan would not solve the problem of communal minorities because the number of Muslims in the remaining part of British India and the number of non-Muslims in Pakistan would be sizeable.
• There was no justification for including within Pakistan, the non-Muslims districts of Bengal, Assam and the Punjab.
• The armed forces, transportation as well as the postal and telegraph system had been built for India as a whole and the partition would create many problems.