Multiple choice

Cripps Mission aimed at

  1. giving complete independence to united India

  2. widening the gulf between the Congress and the Muslim League

  3. a compromise between Congress’s demand of united India and Muslim League’s demand for a partitioned India

  4. giving proportional representation to the Muslims under the framework of the new constitution
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Explanation

The Cripps Mission (1942) proposed dominion status after WWII with the option for provinces to secede from the union. This attempted to balance Congress's demand for a united India and the Muslim League's demand for partition. The mission failed because neither major party accepted the compromise.

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