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Interim Government

State before Partition: India’s Interim Government under Wavell

Author(s): 
Rakesh Ankit
Publisher/Sponsor: 
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00856401.2019.1556890

This paper is a study of the Interim Government in British India, formed during the penultimate viceroyalty of Archibald Wavell, from September 1946 to March 1947. It tries to throw light on major and minor personalities and micro and macro processes at work in this improbable interlude and, thus, probes an overshadowed ministerial and bureaucratic set-up in the lead-up to Partition. This understudied set-up constituted yet another compelling ‘space before Partition’ which would continue to affect the Indian state after Partition.