ABSTRACT
The cabinet mission had made two points clear at the time it announced its plan: the plan was not arbitrary but only a recommendation submitted in the hope that the two large parties of India, the Congress and the Muslim League, would accept it, and the plan, if accepted, had to be taken as it was presented in its totality. On June 6, 1946, the Muslim League Council endorsed the decision of the committee. The controversy between the Congress and the mission and the viceroy was still going on and the attitude adopted by the leaders of the Congress posed a threat. The Muslim League had made every possible effort to reach an agreement with the British government and with the Hindu Congress but both had conspired, bent on defeat of the League. Direct action day was observed peacefully all over India, except in Calcutta where it took the form of a Hindu-Muslim riot from the very beginning.
