'''1945: Key Events'''

* The Indian National Army, hit by desertions and disease, surrenders, and several members are publicly tried. Bose is believed to have been killed in an air crash over Taipei. 

* Central and provincial legislature elections: Congress wins majority but loses to the Muslim League in all Muslim-dominated provinces except the North West Frontier Province. 

* A pact between Bhulabhai Desai of the Congress and Liaqat Ali of the Muslim League envisages joint control of an interim government, but both parties quickly repudiate any such understanding. 

* Labour comes to power in Britain. C. R. Attlee sponsors a new initiative to break the Hindu- Muslim deadlock with the Simla Conference chaired by Lord Wavell. Jinnah rejects all compromise offers. 

* The Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) is inaugurated (it became operational only in 1954); it later pioneered India’s nuclear and space research programmes. 

* The best known Prithvi Theatres play, [[Inder Raj Anand]]’s Deewar, addresses the communal divide in the context of India’s impending Partition.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._K._Thyagaraja_Bhagavathar|M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar]] and [[N. S. Krishnan]] are arrested on murder charges and imprisoned. 

* Film trade representatives resign from the Film Advisory Committee. The government withdraws state control on raw stock distribution (imposed in July 1943).