Indian independence · TURNING POINT ·
Royal Indian Navy mutiny (1946)
On the Indian independence map as “Bombay — the naval mutiny”
18–23 Feb 1946 — Ratings of the Royal Indian Navy strike and seize 78 ships over pay, food and insult; the tricolour and the crescent fly together from the mastheads. London reads the signal: the sword arm of the Raj is no longer sure.
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- Cabinet Mission and Direct Action Day (chapter 12 of Indian independence)
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- Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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