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UPSC 2000: The Balkan Plan for fragmentation of India was the brain-child of
(a)W. Churchill
(b)M. A. Jinnah
(c)Lord Mountbatten
(d)V. P. Menon
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The "Balkan Plan" (also called the Dickie-Bird or Ismay Plan) envisaged fragmenting British India into many independent provinces and was drawn up in April 1947 under the direction of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the last Viceroy. Therefore, Mountbatten—not Churchill, Jinnah or V. P. Menon—was its architect. ([gktoday.in](https://www.gktoday.in/dickie-bird-plan-1947/?utm_source=openai))
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