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UPSC 2003: An important aspect of the Cripps Mission of 1942 was
(a)that all Indian States should join the Indian Union as a condition to consider any degree of autonomy for India
(b)the creation of an Indian Union with Dominion status very soon after the Second World War
(c)the active participation and cooperation of the Indian people, communities and political parties in the British war effort as a condition for granting independence with full sovereign status to India after war
(d)the framing of a constitution for the entire Indian Union, with no separate constitution for any province, and a Union Constitution to be accepted by all provinces
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Not attemptedCorrect Answer: (b) the creation of an Indian Union with Dominion status very soon after the Second World War
Stafford Cripps offered that, after World War II, India would become an ‘Indian Union’ with full Dominion status within the Commonwealth, to be governed by a future constitution framed by a Constituent Assembly—an offer rejected by Congress. ([nextias.com](https://www.nextias.com/blog/cripps-mission-proposals/?utm_source=openai))
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