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  • advisory war council set up
  • Transfer of power: will expand VEC to have more indians
  • CoI: CA post war were mainly indians
  • Swaraj: Dominion status is CoI after war
    • ICA 1909: limited SG
    • Montague 1917: Swaraj in future
    • Irwin 1929: dominion in future
    • Linlithgow3641 1920: dominion after war
  • first time, brits recognized right of indians in drafting CoI & first time explicit promise of dominion status w/ clear timeline
    • thanks Hitler (for WWII)
  • Unity: no future CoI w/o minority consent i.e. veto to ML
    • 1889: INC no resolution w/o minority consent

Impact

  • rejected by INC at 1940 Wardha meet
    • INC goal purna swaraj
  • ML1906 rejected as no partition or two CA explicitly
  • individual satyagrah 1940
  • launched after failure of AO 1940
  • method make anti war speech and demand freedom of speech (not purna swaraj)
  • Vinobha Bhave, Nehru, Brahmadutta first three satyagrahis arrested under Defence of India Act
  • Satyagrahis launched Delhi Chalo Movement