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Option 4 : Dividing India into small parts.
The correct answer is Dividing India into small parts.
During the time of March and May of 1947, Mountbatten decided that the Cabinet Mission Plan had been not working and formulated an alternative plan called Dickie Bird Plan.
- It is also called Plan Balkan or Ismay Plan.
- The plan is to divide India into smaller parts and make it suitable for British imperialist designs.
- The plan said the transfer of power to separate provinces if formed before the transfer with Punjab and Bengal having the option to vote for partition of their provinces.
- Various units formed along the princely states would have the option of joining India or Pakistan or remaining separate.
- The plan was abandoned and Nehru opposed it actively.
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