Plan Balkan
- Between March and May of 1947, Mountbatten decided that the Cabinet Mission Plan had become untenable and formulated an alternative plan.
- This plan envisaged the transfer of power to separate provinces (or to a confederation, if formed before the transfer)
- Punjab and Bengal were given the option to vote for partition of their provinces.
- The various units thus formed along with the princely states (rendered independent by lapse of paramouncy) would have the option of joining India or Pakistan or remaining separate.
- The plan was quickly abandoned after Nehru reacted violently to it.
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