Lord Mountbatten worked out a detailed plan for the transfer of power to the Indian hands.

The salient features of the Mouf batten plan were as follows:

(1) Muslim-dominated areas may be separated to form a Dominion. In that case such domination would be constituted by a partition of Bengal and the Punjab.

(2) A referendum in North-West Frontier Province would decide whether it should join Pakistan or not.

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(3) Similarly the people of Sylhet, in Assam, were also to give their verdict in a referendum whether they were willing to join the Muslim area in Bengal.

(4) A Boundary Commission was to define the boundaries of the Hindu and Muslim Provinces in the Punjab and Bengal.

(5) The British Parliament was to legislate an Act for the immediate transfer of Power.

(6) The representatives of the Muslim dominated areas could form a separate Constitution- making body or Constituent Assembly.