Re-visiting the Final Phase of India’s Freedom Struggle: 1940 -47

Abstract

This essay aims to re-visit the political happenings from 1940- the Lahore Resolution – until 
15th August 1947 when India achieved independence separating it into two: India and Pakistan. The 
elections conducted in 1937, on the basis of the Govt of India Act of 1935, the circumstances led to 
the straining of relations between the Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League; 
India’s entry into Second World War, Cripps mission and its resolutions, its consequences in the light 
of are being discussed. 

 Resolved in Lahore, the offer of Cripps, civil disobedience, the resolution to leave India 
and the introduction to the Cabinet Mission were all discussed.