(a) Cabinet Mission Plan
(b) Cripps Proposals
(c) Simon Commission Report
(d) Wavell Plan
Answer: (b) Option (b) is correct:
On 8 August 1942, at the All-India Congress Committee Session in Bombay, Gandhi launched the ‘Quit India’ Movement and called for ‘Do or Die’. The movement was in response to the failure of the Cripps Mission to solve the constitutional deadlock exposed Britain’s unchanged attitude on constitutional advance and made it clear that any more silence would be tantamount to accepting the British right to decide the fate of Indians without consulting them. Other reasons for launching the Quit India Movement:
O There was popular discontent because of rising prices and shortage of food. There were fears of Britain following a scorched earth policy in Assam, Bengal and Orissa against possible Japanese advance.
O News of reverses suffered by the British in South-East Asia and an imminent British collapse enhanced popular willingness to give expression to discontent.
O The leadership wanted to condition the masses for a possible Japanese invasion.
O The rout of a European power by an Asian power shattered white prestige and the British behavior towards the Indian subjects in South-East Asia exposed the racist attitude of the rulers. Wavell Plan (1945) and Cabinet Mission (1946) were introduced after the Quit Indian Movement and Simon Commission (1927) was set up prior to the Movement.
