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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1940, Aug. 8 | |
| Great Britain offered India partnership and a new constitution after the war. | 1 |
| 1942, April 11 | |
| The Indian Nationalist leaders rejected a British offer of autonomy for India after the war, with the right to secede, conveyed to them by Sir Stafford Cripps as emissary of the British government. Instead, they demanded immediate independence. Disturbances developed in India, and Mohandas K. Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Abdul Kalam Azad, leaders of the independence movement, were arrested, but were released later in the year. | 2 |
| July 3 | |
| The British government announced a reorganization of the government, giving the Indians a large majority on the viceroy's council. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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