Lord Linlithgow

Lord Linlithgow (1936-43)

1. First general lections to the central as well as provincial legislatures were held in 1937.

2. Forward Block was founded in 1939.

3. The Second World War broke out on 3rd September, 1939.

4. The British Government declared that India was a party to the War, without consulting the elected governments of the Provinces. In protest, the Congress governments in the Provinces resigned.

5. August Offer (1940) by the Viceroy in which he declared dominion status as the ultimate goal of British policy in India.

6. At its Haripura session (1938), the congress declared ‘Poorna Swaraj’ ideal to cover native states and British India. However, the functioning of the Congress was to be confined in British India only, and the people of the native states were to from their own political parties.

7. In 1940 individual civil disobedience movement was started.

8. Lahore resolution of the Muslim League in 1940, demanding Pakistan.

9. 1942, Cripps Mission arrived in India.

10. Quit India Movement started on 8th August 1942.