2. Cripps Mission

♤ In March 1942, Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the British cabinet came with a draft declaration on the proposals of the British Government. These proposals were to be adopted at the end of the Second World War, provided the Congress and Muslim League could accept them.

♤ According to the proposals:

o The Constitution of India was to be framed by a Constituent Assembly elected for the purpose by the Indian people.

o The Constitution should provide India, a dominion status.

o There should be one Indian Union comprising all the provinces and Indian states.

o Any province (or Indian state) not accepting the Constitution would be free to retain its constitutional position existing at that time, and with such a non-acceding province, British Government could enter into separate constitutional arrangements.