Indian independence · TURNING POINT ·
Linlithgow declares war for India (1939)
On the Indian independence map as “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.
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- Lahore Resolution and World War II (chapter 10 of Indian independence)
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- Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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