(a) India should be granted complete independence
(b) India should be partitioned into two before granting independence
(c) India should be made a republic with the condition that she will join the Commonwealth
(d) India should be given Dominion status
Answer: (d)
Option (d) is correct: In March 1942, a mission headed by Stafford Cripps was sent to India with constitutional proposals to seek Indian
support for the Second World War. In return, it proposed to enable elections and give Dominion status once the war was over. Sir Stafford Cripps was a senior left-wing politician and government minister in the war cabinet of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. But Cripps Mission was a total failure as the Indians did not agree to it.
