Question

The Balkan Plan for fragmentation of India was the brain- child of

• A. W. Churchill
• B. M.A. Jinnah
• C. Lord Mountbatten
• D. V.P. Menon

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Lord Mountbatten

After arriving in India to negotiate terms for an Independent India, Mountbatten soon concluded that transfer of power to one central representative constituency assembly for India would be impossible to achieve as neither the India National Congress nor the Muslim League could agree to the terms, and he accordingly came up with ‘Plan Balkan’, separate dominion for Pakistan, the Princely States and the rest of British India with certain key areas of administration run by Central Government.