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4 September – Street violence between Muslims and Hindus in Bombay. 27 November – Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the United States and the Soviet Union to end nuclear testing and to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster." 1946 Cabinet Mission to India on March 24
September 2, 1946: British India's Viceroy Wavell swears in transitional government and future prime ministers Nehru of India and Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan September 10, 1946: Sister Agnes Bojaxhiu receives "call within a call" and inspiration to become Mother Teresa
September 1 – 1946 Turin Grand Prix, the first official Formula One Grand Prix, is held in Italy. [ 14 ] September 2 – The Interim Government of India takes charge, with Jawaharlal Nehru as vice president, as part of the transition from the British Raj to full independence for India and Pakistan .
India becomes a member of Missile Technology Control Regime. 23 September: India signs a billion-dollar defence deal with France to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets. 27 September: India launches its first space laboratory, AstroSat, in its biggest project since its Mars orbiter mission in 2014. 8 November
On 19 September 1945, following negotiations between Indian leaders and members of the 1946 Cabinet Mission to India from the United Kingdom, the Viceroy Lord Wavell announced that elections to the provincial and central legislatures would be held in December 1945 to January 1946. It was also announced that an executive council would be formed ...
The newly elected government of Clement Attlee dispatched the 1946 Cabinet Mission to India to formulate proposals for the formation of a government that would lead to an independent India. [4] The elections for the Constituent Assembly were not direct elections, as the members were elected from each of the provincial legislative assemblies.
Calling for Direct Action Day, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the leader of the All India Muslim League, said that he saw only two possibilities "either a divided India or a destroyed India". [20] [21] In July 1946, the Muslim League withdrew its agreement to the plan and announced a general strike on 16 August, terming it Direct Action Day, to assert ...
A modern display of the Indian National Army trials. The Indian National Army trials (also known as the INA trials and the Red Fort trials) was the British Indian trial by court-martial of a number of officers of the Indian National Army (INA) between November 1945 and May 1946, on various charges of treason, torture, murder and abetment to murder, during the Second World War.