History · Partition of India

Why did the British Cabinet Mission (1946) propose a three-tier federal structure for independent India?

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1To highly centralize all executive and legislative powers within a singular body
2To accommodate the demand for regional autonomy in Muslim-majority provinces while keeping India united✓
3To grant complete sovereign independence to each individual village community
4To geopolitically subdivide the Indian subcontinent into exactly 50 administrative states

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To accommodate the demand for regional autonomy in Muslim-majority provinces while keeping India united

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