<P> An old Sikh man carrying his wife . Over 10 million people were uprooted from their homeland and travelled on foot, bullock carts and trains to their promised new home . </P> <Li> <P> Gandhi in Bela, Bihar, after attacks on Muslims, 28 March 1947 . </P> </Li> <P> Gandhi in Bela, Bihar, after attacks on Muslims, 28 March 1947 . </P> <P> Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee had been deeply interested in Indian independence since the 1920s, and for years had supported independence . He now took charge of the government position and gave the issue highest priority . In January 1946, a number of mutinies broke out in the armed services, starting with that of RAF servicemen frustrated with their slow repatriation to Britain . The mutinies came to a head with mutiny of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay in February 1946, followed by others in Calcutta, Madras, and Karachi . Although the mutinies were rapidly suppressed, they had the effect of spurring the Attlee government to action . A Cabinet Mission was sent to India led by the Secretary of State for India, Lord Pethick Lawrence, which also included Sir Stafford Cripps, who had visited India four years before . The objective of the mission was to arrange for an orderly transfer to independence . </P>

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