Status Updates From Partition: The Story of Ind...

The issue of Pakistan would be shelved and it would be left to the provinces to form groups, as originally envisaged in the Cabinet Mission Plan. Miéville, duly shocked, said the League would never accept this. Even Mountbatten’s customary sangfroid momentarily lapsed.

They recommended, strongly, reinstating the old ‘class’-based system, arguing that even by 1945 there was an obvious risk in bringing new and untried classes such as Bengalis into the army.

‘It was Congress that insisted on partition’. It was Jinnah who was against it.