The Cabinet Mission was a team of three British cabinet ministers who came to India in March 1946 and proposed, on 16 May 1946, a united Indian Union with a weak centre, groups of provinces and an indirectly elected Constituent Assembly, as a way to transfer power without partition.
After the Second World War, Britain's Labour government under Clement Attlee was committed to Indian independence. The war had exhausted Britain, and events in India, including the trials of INA officers at the Red Fort, the Royal Indian Navy mutiny of February 1946 and widespread unrest, showed that British authority was slipping. The elections of 1945–46 confirmed that the Congress dominated the general seats and the Muslim League the Muslim seats.
The Mission was sent to find an agreed way to transfer power. After talks at Shimla failed to produce a compromise between the Congress and the League, the Mission announced its own plan. It hoped to reconcile the Congress demand for a united India with the League's fear of Hindu majority domination by creating a three-tier structure.
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