Lord Linlithgow

Lord Linlithgow 1936 – 1944

• Govt. of India Act enforced in the provinces.

• 1st General Elections.(1936-37)

• Congress ministries formed in 8 out of 11 provinces. They remained in power for about 2 years till Oct 1939, when they gave up offices on the issue of India having been dragged into the II World War. The Muslim League observed the days as ‘Deliverance Say’ (22 December1939)

• Churchill became the British PM in May, 1940. He declared that the Atlantic Charter (issued jointly by the UK and US, stating to give sovereign rights to those who have been forcibly deprived of them) does not apply to India.

• Outbreak of World War II in 1939)

• Forward Block formed in 1939.

• Lahore resolution (1939)

• August offer, 1940.

 • Cripps Mission in 1942.

• Quit India Movement (August 8, 1942).