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Explain why the efforts at finding solution to India’s constitutional impasse failed during 1942-1946.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

The years 1942-46 saw four successive British attempts to break the constitutional deadlock — Cripps, the Wavell/Simla initiative, the Cabinet Mission, and finally the Interim Government — and every one of them foundered, culminating not in agreement but in Partition.

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  • The Cripps Mission, 1942: A Post-Dated Cheque
  • Quit India and Its Repressive Aftermath
  • The Wavell Plan and Simla Conference, 1945
  • The Cabinet Mission Plan, 1946: Ambiguity over Grouping
  • Underlying Structural Causes of Failure

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