Blast From The Past: Indian Independence Bill

 

On July 4, 1947, the Indian Independence Bill was officially introduced in the British House of Commons by Prime Minister Clement Attlee.

 It proposed ending British rule and dividing the subcontinent into two sovereign dominions, India and Pakistan, effective August 15, 1947.

The bill was a culmination of decades of the Indian independence movement and quickly passed through the British Parliament, receiving Royal Assent just two weeks later on July 18, 1947. It allowed the two nations to draft their own constitutions and gave princely states the choice to join either India or Pakistan

 

 

 

 

 

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