The plan of Sir Stafford Cripps envisaged that after the Second World War
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UPSC CSP Previous Year Paper (2016)
India should be granted complete independence
Incorrect AnswerIndia should be partitioned into two before granting independence
Incorrect AnswerIndia should be made a republic with the condition that she will join the Commonwealth
Incorrect AnswerIndia should be given Dominion status
Correct AnswerExplanation:
Cripps Mission was sent to India under the president ship of Stafford Cripps in march 1942. The intention was to get Indian support for Britishers in the ongoing World War II.
It proposed establish an Indian Dominion that will be free to decide its relations with the commonwealth and United Nations , a constituent assembly to be convened to frame a new constitution. Any province not willing to join the Union could have a separate constitution and form a separate.
Acceptance of Indian constitution by British government would be subject to condition that any province would have the right to have separate union and a treaty to be negotiated to effect the power transfer to safeguard racial and religious minorities
It does not have any condition regarding partition of India or making India republic or joining the Commonwealth of Nations.
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