UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2004 · Q1(d) · 20 marks
'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.'
- Chapter
- Politics of Separatism
- Topic
- Why Partition: Freedom and Partition, 1942-47
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