GS Mains Model Question & Answer: What is Cripps mission and how it gives encouragement to the separatist forces in India? Comment

Q. What is Cripps mission and how it gives encouragement to the separatist forces in India? Comment

Model Answer:

What is Cripps mission and how it gives encouragement to the separatist forces in India?

The Cripps mission was an attempt in late March 1942 by the British government to secure full Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II.

Cripps was sent to negotiate an agreement with the nationalist leaders, speaking for the majority Hindu population, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, speaking for the minority Muslim population. Cripps worked to keep India loyal to the British war effort in exchange for a promise of full self-government after the war. Cripps promised to give dominion status after the war as well as elections to be held after the war. Cripps discussed the proposals with the Indian leaders and published them. Both the major parties, the Congress and the League rejected his proposals and the mission proved a failure.

The feature of its:

a) Attainment of dominion status.

b) Right to frame constitution by the Indians

c) Any province or state would have the right to reject the constitution.

The third point was a major flaw . Muslims politicians were happy with this which later gave the idea of Pakistan.

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