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