Last Phase of Indian National Movement Formula Sheet

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Date	Event
August 1939	Bose removed from all Congress positions
23 March 1940	Lahore resolution of the Muslim League
8 August 1940	August Offer by Linlithgow
17 October 1940	Individual Satyagraha begins (Vinoba Bhave)
16-17 January 1941	Bose escapes from Calcutta
7 December 1941	Japan attacks Pearl Harbour
March 1942	Cripps Mission
14 July 1942	Congress Working Committee at Wardha
9 August 1942	Congress leaders arrested; Quit India begins
10 February 1943	Gandhi's 21-day fast
21 October 1943	Provisional Government of Free India, Singapore
October 1943	Wavell replaces Linlithgow
April 1944	Rajaji formula
6 May 1944	Gandhi released
25 June - 14 July 1945	Simla Conference
6 January 1946	INA officers set free
18 February 1946	Royal Indian Navy revolt
March 1946	Cabinet Mission arrives
16 August 1946	Direct Action Day
2 September 1946	Nehru heads the interim government
9 December 1946	First session of the Constituent Assembly
20 February 1947	Attlee: Britain to leave by June 1948
22 March 1947	Mountbatten becomes Viceroy
15 June 1947	AICC accepts partition (G.B. Pant)
15 August 1947	Independence

Linlithgow: Viceroy; August Offer; Viceroy during Cripps and Quit India.
Wavell: Viceroy from October 1943; Simla Conference.
Mountbatten: last Viceroy; partition plan.
Stafford Cripps: Cripps Mission 1942; Cabinet Mission 1946.
Usha Mehta: secret Congress radio, Bombay.
Mohan Singh: raised the INA.
Dr Lakshmi: Rani of Jhansi regiment.
B.C. Dutt: HMIS Talwar rating whose arrest triggered the RIN revolt.
Shah Nawaz Khan, P.K. Sehgal, G.S. Dhillon: INA officers tried at the Red Fort.
Attlee: Labour Prime Minister who declared independence certain.

Dominion status: autonomous units within a political system with equal status in domestic and external affairs.
Axis powers: Germany, Italy and Japan, after the Tripartite Pact.
Prisoners of war: fighters captured by the enemy during an armed conflict.
Rating: an Indian sailor of the Royal Indian Navy.