The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India c12.s5.3

c12.s5.3

(3) About half a century later, Laiqat Ali Khan voiced his demand at a meeting with Lord Wavell on 24 January 1946 that the British resolve the transfer of power problem by imposing a solution on the basis of Pakistan. Wavell told him in reply that in such a case, the British would have to stay on in India to enforce this imposed solution. According to an entry in Wavells journal of the same date Liaqat Ali said that in any event we (the British) would have to stop for many years yet, and that the Moslems were not at all anxious that we should go.⁶¹