Two Independent States of India and Pakistan were created by the

The creation of the two independent states of India and Pakistan was legally formalized by the Indian Independence Act of 1947. Passed by the British Parliament on July 5, 1947, and receiving royal assent on July 18, 1947, the Act was based on the Mountbatten Plan [5]. It provided for the partition of British India into two independent dominions, India and Pakistan, with effect from August 15, 1947 [3]. While earlier proposals like the Cripps Mission (1942) and the Cabinet Mission Plan (1946) discussed the possibility of autonomy or a union, they did not finalize the creation of two separate sovereign states [4]. The Cabinet Mission specifically recommended a single Union of India [4]. Ultimately, the Indian Independence Act was the definitive legislative instrument that ended British rule and established the two new nations [5].

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