At that stage ('44), I don't think Partition had even been considered as an option; we planned to hand over a united India to a successor Government.
Many thanks for the very interesting clarification, Danny, particularly in respect of the Anglo Indian perspective - shades of Bhowani Junction.
It had been my understanding that a form of partition had been considered as far back as Lord Curzon's time as Viceroy, and that Jinnah had pressed in the early 1940s for the creation of Pakistan. Fiat lux!
Jack