

Reference DO 133/93
Department/Office Dominions Office
Title Mahatma Gandhi's fast
Date 1948
Collection Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1964
Region South Asia
Countries India
Places Bengal; Burma (Myanmar); Ceylon; Delhi; East Punjab; France; India; Iran; Kandy; Karachi; Kashmir; Kolkata (Calcutta); Lahore; London; Mumbai (Bombay); Pakistan; Punjab; Sindh; West Punjab
People Attlee, Clement; Churchill, Sir Winston; Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma); Hope, Victor, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow; Khan, Liaquat Ali; Mountbatten, Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma; Nehru, Jawaharlal ('Panditji'); Noon, Feroz Khan; Suhrawardy, Huseyn Shaheed
Topics British Government; business; Christianity; communalism; communications; currency; diplomacy; elections; food; foreign policy; governor-general; Hinduism; independence; Indian National Congress; Indo-Pakistani relations; invasion; Islam; labour; language; migration; military; Muslim League; parliament; partition; political parties; princely states; refugees; roads; satyagraha (non-violent resistance); socialism; steel; United Nations; viceroy; Viceroy's Executive Council; war; weapons