severe repression, Communal Award (Aug.), Gandhiji"s
fast, Poona Pact, foundation of the Indian Military
Academy at Dehra Dun
1933 White Paper on proposed reforms published, Joint Select
Committee
1934 Civil Disobedience Movement called off, Bihar
earthquake, Factories Act, Royal Indian Navy created
1935 Government of India Act
1936 Death of King Emperor George V, accession and
abdication of Edward VIII, accession of George VI, Lord
Linlithgow, Viceroy (1936)
1937 Provincial autonomy inaugurated (I April), Interim
Ministries, Viceregal state-ment (June), formation of
Congress Ministries in six provinces (July), Federal Court
started
1939 Second World War (3 September), Viceroy consulted
Indian leaders, Congress demand an immediate definition
of war aims. Viceroy"s announcement (17 Oct.) of
Dominion Status to be the goal of constitutional
development after the war, resignation of the Provincial
Congress Ministries
1940 Muslim League declares for Pakistan
1941 Subhas Bose jumped home internment and went over land
to Germany
1942 British capitulation in Burma and evacuation leaving
90,000 Indian soldiers behind, Japan bombarded Vizag
(April), Cripps Mission, "Quit India" Movement started
disturbances and repression, Bengal famine, imprisonment
of Congress leaders
1943 The Bengal famine, Lord Wavell, governor general (1943-
47)
1944 Japanese invasion of Assam, INA, repulse of the Japanese
and of the INA near Kohima in Manipur