The British had neither the will , nor the financial resources or military power , to hold India any longer but they were also determined to avoid partition and for this purpose they arranged the Cabinet Mission Plan . According to this plan India would be kept united but would be heavily decentralized with separate groupings of Hindu and Muslim majority provinces . The Muslim League accepted this plan as it contained the ' essence ' of Pakistan but the Congress rejected it . After the failure of the Cabinet Mission Plan , Jinnah called for Muslims to observe Direct Action Day to demand the creation of a separate Pakistan . The Direct Action Day morphed into violent riots between Hindus and Muslims in Calcutta . The riots in Calcutta were followed by intense communal rioting between Hindus and Muslims in Noakhali , Bihar , Garhmukteshwar and Rawalpindi
Noakhali
Noakhali riots
History of Pakistan