GK
INDIAN HISTORY
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Question
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To prevent the Quit India Movement from being launched
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To persuade Indian leaders to support British war efforts
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To convince the Congress Ministries to withdraw their resignations
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To set up a Constitution making body immediately
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Detailed explanation-1: -Notes: The Cripps mission was an attempt in late March 1942 by the British government to secure Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II. The mission was headed by Sir Stafford Cripps, a senior left-wing politician and government minister in the War Cabinet of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Detailed explanation-2: -After the failure of the Cripps Mission to secure Indian support for the British war effort, Gandhi made a call to Do or Die in his Quit India movement delivered in Bombay on 8 August 1942 at the Gowalia Tank Maidan.
Detailed explanation-3: -Cripps Mission provides for an Indian Union with a dominion status after the second world war; which would be free to decide its relations with the Commonwealth and free to participate in the United Nations and other international bodies.