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Turning point · Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948
New Delhi — one man declares war
3 Sep 1939 — Viceroy Linlithgow declares war for 400 million Indians without consulting a single elected Indian. Constitutionally correct, politically fatal: the Congress ministries resign within weeks, and the League fills the vacated ground.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — The War Claims India in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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