Britain announces it will transfer power in India by June 1948

The UN Charter entered into force after ratification by the required states. It created new forums for international disputes and included a trusteeship system for former League mandates and other...

Ratings at the HMIS Talwar signal school in Bombay stopped work over poor conditions and discriminatory treatment. The strike spread to ships and shore establishments, joining service grievances...

The Council’s first session marked the launch of a system that included territories held under League of Nations mandates. The UN framework promised political, social, and educational advancement...

Foreign troops completed their departure from Syria after years of nationalist pressure and diplomatic disputes over the French mandate. A three-day celebration in Damascus followed. The withdrawal...

The United States recognized the Republic of the Philippines as independent. Formal sovereignty followed decades of US rule and wartime occupation, but economic dependence persisted through trade...

The British government accepted a plan to divide British India into two independent dominions, India and Pakistan, with partition of Punjab and Bengal. The plan responded to political deadlock and...

The British Parliament enacted the Indian Independence Act, creating the dominions of India and Pakistan from 15 August. It divided Punjab and Bengal and ended British sovereignty over British...

The transfer of power established Pakistan as a self-governing dominion, created from Muslim-majority regions of British India. The new state inherited a divided geography, urgent administrative...

India became an independent dominion at the end of British rule. Independence followed decades of mass movements, labor and peasant organizing, and political negotiation, as well as India’s large...

The boundary commission reports for Punjab and Bengal were published two days after the two dominions became independent. The late disclosure left communities uncertain about which state they would...