Which British Prime Minister sent Cripps Mission to India in 1942? Choose the most appropriate answer.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Winston Churchill
The Cripps Mission, led by Sir Stafford Cripps, was sent to India in March 1942 by the wartime government of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to win Indian support for Britain in the Second World War. It offered dominion status and a constitution-making body after the war, but the Congress rejected it, and Gandhi is said to have called the offer “a post-dated cheque”.
Clement Attlee became Prime Minister only in July 1945; it was his government that sent the Cabinet Mission of 1946.