 In 1946 , the Labour government in Britain , its <unk> exhausted by the recently concluded World War II , realised that it had neither the mandate at home , the international support , nor the reliability of native forces for continuing to control an increasingly restless India . In February 1947 , Prime Minister Clement <unk> announced that the British government would grant full self @-@ governance to British India by June 1948 at the latest . 
