An important aspect of the Cripps Mission of 1942 was
- that all Indian States should join the Indian Union as a condition to consider any degree of autonomy for India
- the creation of an Indian Union with Dominion status very soon after the Second World War
- the active participation and cooperation of the Indian people, communities and political parties in the British war effort as a condition for granting independence with full sovereign status to India after war.
- the framing of a constitution for the entire Indian Union, with no separate constitution for any province, and a Union Constitution to be accepted by all provinces
Explanation
Option (b) is correct
- Some of the Cripps proposals, embodied in a Draft Declaration, were:
- Immediately after the war, an Indian union with dominion status would be established, with the right to secede from the Commonwealth.
- Any Indian province could stay outside the Indian Union and directly negotiate with Britain.
- The princely states that did not wish to accede to India could continue in their pre-existing relations with the British crown.
- After the war, a constituent assembly would be set up. The members would be elected by the provincial assemblies and nominated by the rulers in the case of the princely states.
- In the meantime, the actual control of defence and military operations would be retained by the British Government
