In this article, we discuss Cripps mission 1942 and its proposals.
In the early days of World War II, the condition of Britain was very bad. In Southeast Asia, where Britain had made its colonies, Japan attacked one after the other.
On 8 December 1941, Japanese forces drove out British troops from the Malayan Peninsula. Japan also attacked Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Philippines.
After this Japan also attacked America's Pearl Harbor. At that time America was fighting with the British. The condition of Britain was getting worse day by day.
Japan was able to capture the colonies of Britain because the people of these countries were not supporting the Britishers in the war.
In India too, the Congress had started the Chalo Delhi movement under the leadership of Gandhiji.
Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not want Japan to take India from them as well. That's why the British needed the support of the Indians anyway.
US President Franklin Rosvelt was also pushing Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill to take India's support by any means.
So the British government sent Sir Stafford Cripps to India with a proposal in March 1942. This is also called Cripps Mission 1942.
The following things were given in the proposal of Cripps Mission -
1. After the end of the war, the British Government was ready to give Dominion Status with Internal and External Autonomy to India.
2. After the war ended, the British government was about to form a Constituent Assembly to frame the Indian Constitution. The members of this Constituent Assembly will come from provincial assemblies and some will be nominated by the Prince of the Princely State.
3. Here the right was also given secede, meaning if any province or princely state does not want to go with the new constitution, then it will have its own constitution. The British government was also going to include them in its commonwealth.
One thing Congress was not getting here was that everything here was going to happen after the end of the war. Gandhiji called the Cripps Mission a "post-dated cheque".
Congress completely rejected the Cripps mission. The reason was that the Cripps Mission was talking about Dominion Status, while Congress had passed the resolution of Purna Swaraj in the Lahore session of 1929.
After which the Congress shifted its Goal Dominion status to Poorn Swaraj.
The Congress was troubled by the fact that the members of the Princely States were going to be nominated by the Prince instead of being elected by the public.
The Muslim League was also not happy with the Cripps mission. The Muslim League wanted a separate country for Muslims and no such thing was said in the Cripps Mission.
The Cripps mission failed due to the rejection of the Congress and the Muslim League and Sir Stafford Cripps went back to Britain on 12 April 1942.
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