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“The Cripps Mission was plagued throughout, and ultimately torpedoed.” Critically examine.

  • UPSC 2019
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

Sent to India in March 1942 by a Britain reeling from Japanese advances in South-East Asia, the Cripps Mission was Britain's attempt to secure Indian cooperation in the war — and its collapse within weeks illustrates how the very structure of the offer, and the actors surrounding it, doomed it from the outset.

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  • Why the Mission Was Sent
  • The Proposals and Their Built-in Flaws
  • "Plagued Throughout": The Structural Problems
  • "Ultimately Torpedoed": The Sabotage from London
  • Consequences of the Failure

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