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Q32 (IAS/1998) History & Culture › National Movement (1857–1947) › Constitutional plans and missions Answer Verified

Assertion (A) : The Congress rejected the Cripps proposals. Reason (R) : The Cripps Mission consisted solely of whites.

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Explanation

Assertion (A) is true: the Indian National Congress rejected the Cripps proposals because they were vague and fell short of full independence, offering dominion status, allowing princely-state nominees, permitting provinces to secede, and lacking any immediate transfer of power or real share in defence [1]. Reason (R) is also factually correct in the sense that the Mission was composed of British cabinet figures led by Sir Stafford Cripps and other British officials rather than Indian negotiators [2]. However, R is not the correct explanation of A — Congress’s rejection rested on substantive constitutional and political objections to the proposals themselves, not primarily on the racial composition of the delegation [1].

Sources

  1. [1] Rajiv Ahir. A Brief History of Modern India (2019 ed.). SPECTRUM. > Chapter 22: Nationalist Response in the Wake of World War II > Why Cripps Mission Failed > p. 443
  2. [2] https://gacbe.ac.in/pdf/ematerial/18BPA66S-U5.pdf
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