CSE EXAM ( UPSC prelims mains) CAPF

🔆 AUGUST OFFER vs. CRIPPS MISSION

📍 Time Period
✅ August Offer: August 1940
✅ Cripps Mission: March 1942

📍 Viceroy at the Time
✅ August Offer: Lord Linlithgow
✅ Cripps Mission: Lord Linlithgow

📍 Context/Reasons for Proposal
✅ August Offer: Britain’s precarious situation in WWII and the need for Indian support.
✅ Cripps Mission: Japanese advances in Southeast Asia heightened the need for Indian cooperation in the war effort.

📍 Main Proposals
✅ August Offer: Dominion status as the long-term goal; expansion of Viceroy’s Executive Council; promise of a post-war constituent assembly.
✅ Cripps Mission: Dominion status with the right to secede from the Commonwealth; a constituent assembly after the war to decide the constitution; provision for any province to opt out of the Indian Union.

📍 Shortcomings Highlighted by Indians
✅ August Offer: Vague promises; no immediate transfer of power; retention of British control over defense; no clear path to full independence.
✅ Cripps Mission: Dominion status instead of full independence; allowed provinces to secede, potentially leading to partition; no immediate transfer of power; British control over defense continued.

📍 Reaction of Indian Political Parties
✅ August Offer: Rejected by the Congress; welcomed by some other groups for its promise of eventual self-rule.
✅ Cripps Mission: Rejected by Congress and Muslim League; Congress criticized the lack of immediate power transfer and the provision for dominion status; Muslim League was dissatisfied with the lack of a clear commitment to Pakistan.

📍 Outcome/Result
✅ August Offer: Rejected by Indian National Congress; led to increased demand for complete independence.
✅ Cripps Mission: Failure; led to the Congress launching the Quit India Movement in August 1942.

📍 Impact on Indian National Movement
✅ August Offer: Strengthened Indian resolve for complete independence; highlighted the limitations of British promises.
✅ Cripps Mission: Intensified Indian demand for complete independence; demonstrated the unyielding nature of British policy; precipitated the Quit India Movement.


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🔆 AUGUST OFFER vs. CRIPPS MISSION

📍 Time Period
✅ August Offer: August 1940
✅ Cripps Mission: March 1942

📍 Viceroy at the Time
✅ August Offer: Lord Linlithgow
✅ Cripps Mission: Lord Linlithgow

📍 Context/Reasons for Proposal
✅ August Offer: Britain’s precarious situation in WWII and the need for Indian support.
✅ Cripps Mission: Japanese advances in Southeast Asia heightened the need for Indian cooperation in the war effort.

📍 Main Proposals
✅ August Offer: Dominion status as the long-term goal; expansion of Viceroy’s Executive Council; promise of a post-war constituent assembly.
✅ Cripps Mission: Dominion status with the right to secede from the Commonwealth; a constituent assembly after the war to decide the constitution; provision for any province to opt out of the Indian Union.

📍 Shortcomings Highlighted by Indians
✅ August Offer: Vague promises; no immediate transfer of power; retention of British control over defense; no clear path to full independence.
✅ Cripps Mission: Dominion status instead of full independence; allowed provinces to secede, potentially leading to partition; no immediate transfer of power; British control over defense continued.

📍 Reaction of Indian Political Parties
✅ August Offer: Rejected by the Congress; welcomed by some other groups for its promise of eventual self-rule.
✅ Cripps Mission: Rejected by Congress and Muslim League; Congress criticized the lack of immediate power transfer and the provision for dominion status; Muslim League was dissatisfied with the lack of a clear commitment to Pakistan.

📍 Outcome/Result
✅ August Offer: Rejected by Indian National Congress; led to increased demand for complete independence.
✅ Cripps Mission: Failure; led to the Congress launching the Quit India Movement in August 1942.

📍 Impact on Indian National Movement
✅ August Offer: Strengthened Indian resolve for complete independence; highlighted the limitations of British promises.
✅ Cripps Mission: Intensified Indian demand for complete independence; demonstrated the unyielding nature of British policy; precipitated the Quit India Movement.


#history #prelims

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