VIRTUAL   EXHIBITION   SECTIONS
0 Index, Introduction, Entrance Panel...	1 History in the Making	2 Building India's Industries	3 The Land and the People	4 Dance and Temple Sculpture

Subsections of Section 1 (History in the Making)
1.1:   Independence Movement	1.1 Part A:   Section Text & Panel 2 (I M - 1940's) 1.1 Part B:   1.1 Part B:   Panel 3 (Simla Conference & Elections)
1.2:   Famine, Riots and Refugees
1.3:   Political Leaders and Others

Index to Section 1.1 On the previous page (1.1 Part A)   Section 1.1 text Panel 2:   Independence Movement:   India, 1940's - images from the peasant, labor and anti-colonial movements Panel 2 captions (with photographs, slightly enlarged). On this page (1.1 Part B)   Panel 3:   Independence Movement:   Simla Conference & Elections

Panel 3   (Simla Conference and Elections)   is directly below. Photographs, panels & text   © Sunil Janah 1940-2000

 

Panel 3: Independence Movement - Simla Conference & Elections Top Row: Leaders of the Indian National Congress with Mohammad Ali Jinnah and other Muslim League leaders, viceregal lodge, Simla, Himachal Pradesh, 1946.   sf.016 Mohammad Ali Jinnah at a Muslim League conference in Bombay.   sf.017 Second Row: Gandhi using his usual mode of travel--a third-class compartment of the Indian Railways--to attend the Simla Conference, a meeting between Indian nationalist leaders and the British viceroy, 1946.   sf.018 Lord Wavell, then viceroy of India, talking with Rajagopalacharya, a leading Congress politician, Simla Conference.   sf.019 Third Row: People in Bombay lining up to vote in the first general elections, 1946, when India was in transition from a British colony to an independent state.   sf.020 Gandhi and Jinnah in front of Jinnah's house in Bombay during their historic talks, 1946.   sf.021 Bottom Row: Election meeting in Andhra Pradesh, southern India.   sf.022 Zamindars, or landowners, protesting against proposed land-redistribution legislation, Uttar Pradesh, northern India, 1948.   sf.023 Photographs © Sunil Janah