What was the June 3 Plan?

Mark scheme

Marking points from the official mark scheme (Oct/Nov 2016). The mark or mark type is shown in brackets.

1. [4] Reward each correct statement with 1 mark. 2 marks can be awarded for a developed statement. Candidates might refer to the following:
2. [1] Mountbatten sent in 1947 to work out a plan for the British to leave India
3. [1] Two states to be set up India and Pakistan
4. [1] Government of India Act 1935 to be constitution of both countries
5. [1] Each state to have Dominion status, an Executive responsible to Constituent Assembly
6. [1] Muslim majority provinces to vote on whether to stay with India or join Pakistan
7. [1] Punjab and Bengal divided
8. [1] Muslims accepted the plan, meant 7 weeks to partition as announced by Mountbatten.
9. LEVEL 1: [1] Simple statement
10. [1] It could not work with it
11. LEVEL 2: [2-4] Identifies reasons
12. [2-4] Congress ignored the Muslim viewpoint
13. LEVEL 3: [5-7] Explains reasons
14. [1] The report ignored the views of Muslims.
15. [1] Congress had gone back on the view of having separate electorates established at Lucknow in 1916.
16. [1] There was no room for automatic Muslim representation in the parliament which the Muslim League wanted.
17. [1] Muslims were against Hindi being the official language of India and therefore saw no future in their relationship with Hindus.
18. [1] The Muslim League foresaw that the Punjab and Bengal was in danger of not having adult suffrage and so wanted seats to be reserved for Muslims on a population basis.
19. LEVEL 1: [1-2] Simple statement
20. [1-2] They both went to university
21. LEVEL 2: [3-6] Describes the relationship/identifies successes or failures
22. [3-6] Allama Iqbal was a poet, knighted by the British. Rahmat Ali named Pakistan
23. LEVEL 3: [7-10] Explains Allama Iqbal's OR Rahmat Ali's contributions to the Pakistan Movement
24. LEVEL 4: [9-13] Explains Allama Iqbal's AND Rahmat Ali's contributions to the Pakistan Movement
25. Allama Iqbal
26. [1] He was the first Muslim leader to advocate the partition of India and the creation of a separate Muslim state.
27. [1] After his Allahabad address in 1930 when he put forward this view, many Muslims seriously considered separatism during the 1930s.
28. [1] He was opposed to British control of India – conquest of others was wrong and went against the Muslim faith, this strengthened his view of a separate homeland, independent of the British.
29. [1] He persuaded many Muslims that the Muslim League had to build an effective mass political party to challenge the domination of the Congress.
30. [1] Jinnah took up many of his ideas and went on to lead the Muslim League as a highly effective political party.
31. [1] Iqbal's poetry awakened a sense of nationhood among Muslims and he urged them to be active in making progress along a distinctive Islamic path and not capitalist in nature.
32. [1] Many Muslims adopted this vision as a view of the future.
33. Rahmat Ali
34. [1] In 1933 he and some fellow students produced a pamphlet called 'Now or Never' in which he argued in favour of partition and gave the name Pakistan to this new Muslim state that would be formed.
35. [1] This became popular amongst most Muslims during the 1930s.
36. [1] He wanted a separate independent state.
37. [1] He criticised plans to abandon Muslim communities in such places as Delhi as well as accepting a divided Bengal.
38. [1] Jinnah refused to meet him.
39. [1] Ali's vision of the future was adopted in the longer term.
40. LEVEL 5: [14] As Level 4 - also produces a judgement or evaluation