The Cripps Mission was a failed attempt in late March 1942 by the British government to secure full Indian cooperation and support for their efforts in World War II. The mission was headed by a senior minister Stafford Cripps.
Cripps Mission (1942): The falling of Singapore and Rangoon in the Second World War compelled Winston Churchill and the British war cabinet to send a high-powered mission to India under the supervision of Stafford Cripps.
The Cripps Mission was a 1942 attempt by the British government, led by Sir Stafford Cripps, to gain Indian support for the defense of the country against Japanese invasion during World War II.
In order to secure Indian support for British war efforts during the Second World War, the British government dispatched the Cripps Mission to India in March 1942. Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, a minister for labour in Winston Churchill’s coalition administration in Britain, served as its leader.
The Cripps Mission in 1942, led by British minister Stafford Cripps, aimed to secure Indian support for Britain in World War II. Cripps, a member of the left-wing Labour Party and the War Cabinet, was sent to negotiate with nationalist Congress leaders and Muslim League leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
The Cripps Mission was a war measure. In early 1942 the Brit- ish forces had suffered heavy reverses irt North Africa and the East. The Japanese had rallied forces on the eastern froptier of India with Rangoon in their possession. In panic people were leaving Calcutta.
The Cripps Mission Proposals (1942) were an initiative by the British government to negotiate Indian self-governance during World War II, offering dominion status and the formation of a Constituent Assembly post-war.