The actions of the mutineers were supported by demonstrations which included a one–day general strike in Bombay. The strike found some support amongst the Indian population, though not their political leadership who saw the dangers of mutiny on the eve of Independence. By dusk on 19 February, a Naval Central Strike committee was elected. The immediate issues of the revolt were living conditions and food. The RIN Revolt started as a strike by ratings of the Royal Indian Navy on 18 February in protest against general conditions. The British authorities had later branded the Naval Mutiny as a 'larger communist conspiracy raging from the Middle East to the Far East against the British crown'. The Communist Party of India was the only nation–wide political organisation that supported the rebellion. The leaders of the Congress were of the view that their idea of a peaceful culmination to a freedom struggle and smooth transfer of power would have been lost if an armed revolt succeeded with undesirable consequences. The Indian National Congress and the Muslim League convinced Indian sailors to surrender and condemned the mutiny, realising the political and military risks of unrest of this nature on the eve of independence. The mutiny ended with the surrender of revolting RIN sailors to British authorities. The mutiny failed to turn into a revolution because sailors were asked to surrender after the British authorities had assembled superior forces to suppress the mutiny. From the initial flashpoint in Bombay (now Mumbai), the revolt spread and found support throughout British India, from Karachi to Calcutta (now Kolkata), and ultimately came to involve over 10,000 sailors in 56 ships and shore establishments. The Royal Indian Navy mutiny or revolt, also called the 1946 Naval Uprising, was a failed insurrection of Indian naval ratings, soldiers, police personnel and civilians against the British government in India.

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Failed Indian attempt to achieve independence peacefully.

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