The Dickie Bird plan was the brain child of Lord Mountbatten. It was also known as ‘Plan Balkan’ as it was intended to balkanize India into small parts to suit British imperialist designs. The Plan was conceived between March and May 1947. The reason was Mount-Batten felt that the Cabinet Mission Plan had become untenable.

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In this alternative proposal there were following points:

This envisaged transfer of power to separate provinces (or to confederations, if formed before the transfer), with the Bengal and Punjab assemblies being given the options to vote for partition of their provinces, the various units thus formed along with princely states rendered independent by the lapse of paramountcy, would then have the choice of joining India, Pakistan, or remaining separate.

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The plan was quickly abandoned, however, when Nehru reacted violently against it, and the VP Menon-Patel suggestion of transfer to two central governments, India and Pakistan , on the basis of grant of Dominion Status was taken up insted.

Muslim League too was unhappy because its demand for an unified Pakistan was not fulfilled by this plan. Thus Dickie Bird plan was certainly meant for dismemberment of Indian Nationhood, and to make Indian units weak venerable which could serve British interests in future.

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