Cripps Mission(sir stafford cripps)

                                            Cripps Mission

Introduction:

This mission was held in 1942 in the sub-continent under the leadership of Sir Stafford Cripps ( Government servant ).

Reasons :

This mission was take place because the British government was perturbed at victories of the Japanese forces. The Japanese forces were heading toward South Asia. The second world war (1939--1945) seemed to be in the Japanese favor. Indian National Congress was encouraged by the preliminary success of japanese. The movements against the government by congress were troublesome of Britishers. Congressite's were confident that japanese hand over the power after Britain defeat.

Cripp's Proposal:

Congress did not support this mission, Although he bought few proposal given below:

• Status of Dominion

                    The sub-continent will give status of dominion after the war and British will retain the power in India during the war. India control resources & defense of India part their world war effort.

·                   Power of Main Department

  All the government department handover the Indian ministries including Defense, Foreign Affairs & communication.

·         Provincial Legislature

    General election were held after war & the constituent Assembly would elected by the lower house of the newly elected provincial legislatures.

·         Safe guard to Minorities

   Special step will be taken to provide safe guards to the minorities. The rights of Minorities should be protected.

·         Formation of constitution

   After the formulation of constitution by the constitutional Assembly will be sent to provinces. The provinces will do not endorse the constitution will be empower to create a separate & free status themselves.

Reaction of Political Parties

          The proposal were not acceptable to the Muslim league because the existence of the Muslim nation was not acknowledge straight-away. Rather the provinces were given the right of self-determination, Although Muslim league thanks for the step for protection of the rights of minorities.

Gandhi also goes against to the proposal he says in clearest way that the proposals is a postdated cheaque of a bank that is going to be bankrupt. They also opposed the idea of partition & also don’t want the power is distributed among the provinces. Gandhi badly refuses this mission.

Results

          Cripps mission is badly rejected because there are slope of division of the country.

After Proposal

          After the failure of cripps mission in 1942, the Indian national congress kept on pressurizing the British government to quit on India by handling over rule to the majority party civil disobedience movement. Quit India movement and other methods were used to the force the Britisher’s to quit India movement gained momentum. Procession & protest meeting were arranged in all the cities. Gandhi and his party were expecting the defeat of the forces at the hand of allied force at the hands of Japanese. Therefore, the Hindus continuously built up the pressure against the government.