Who of the following Prime Ministers sent Cripps Mission to India ?

The Cripps Mission was dispatched in March 1942 during World War II and was headed by Sir Stafford Cripps, a Labour minister who was a member of the British War Cabinet under Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churchill’s wartime government authorized and sent Cripps to India to secure Indian cooperation for the war effort and to present constitutional proposals for postwar self-government [2]. Contemporary accounts note that Cripps was chosen precisely because he was a Labour representative within Churchill’s War Cabinet, lending credibility to the mission’s mandate as issued by Churchill’s administration [1]. The mission ultimately failed to achieve agreement with Indian political leaders, but it was sent by Churchill’s government in 1942 [2].

Sources

1. [1] History , class XII (Tamilnadu state board 2024 ed.) > Chapter 7: Last Phase of Indian National Movement > Arrival of Cripps > p. 86
2. [2] Rajiv Ahir. A Brief History of Modern India (2019 ed.). SPECTRUM. > Chapter 22: Nationalist Response in the Wake of World War II > Cripps Mission > p. 442