The August Offer by the then Viceroy of India Lord Linlithgow provided for ........

Explanation:

AUGUST OFFER, 8 AUGUST 1940

The fall of France temporarily softened the attitude of congress in India. Britain was in immediate danger of Nazi occupation. As the war was taking a menacing turn from the allied point of view congress offered to cooperate in the war if transfer of authority in India is done to an interim government. The government’s response was a statement of the viceroy known as the august offer.

On 8 August 1940, early in the Battle of Britain, the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, made the so-called August Offer. The following proposals were put in:

1. The establishment of an advisory war council

2. After the war, a representative Indian body would be set up to frame a constitution for India.

3. Viceroy’s Executive Council would be expanded without delay.

4. The minorities were assured that the government would not transfer power “to any system of government whose authority