Abstract
From H. C. Miller, ‘Shaw on India’s Demand’, Hindu, 28 March 1946. H. C. Miller was a member of the London staff of the Hindu. When Labour came into power in 1945, the Attlee government was committed to independence for India; but there remained concern, both in India and Britain, about provinces having independence forced upon them without safeguarding of minority rights. By 1946 Jinnah had the overwhelming support of the Muslim League for the partition of India into Hindu and Muslim states. In March 1946 the British government sent a cabinet mission to Delhi to work out constitutional proposals with the Indian leaders. The members of the mission were Frederick William Pethick-Laurence, 1st Baron (1871–1961), Secretary of State for India and Burma; Sir Stafford Cripps, President of the Board of Trade; Albert Victor Alexander (Alexander of Hillsborough, 1st Earl, 1885–1965), First Lord of the Admiralty; and Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl (1883–1950), Field Marshal and Viceroy of India, 1943–7. Sir Stafford Cripps had led an unsuccessful mission to India in 1942.
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