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  • support for their efforts in World War II. The mission was headed by a senior minister Stafford Cripps. Cripps belonged to the left-wing Labour Party, which...
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    involved with Krishna Menon and the India League. During World War II (1939-1945), Cripps served from May 1940 to January 1942 as Ambassador to the USSR, with...
    35 KB (3,688 words) - 07:46, 28 August 2024
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    merging. › The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British...
    240 KB (26,137 words) - 19:25, 28 September 2024
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    end to British rule in India. After the British failed to secure Indian support for the British war effort with the Cripps Mission, Gandhi made a call to...
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  • subsequently made to the August Offer in 1942 during Cripps' mission. Radhey Shyam Chaurasia (2002). History of Modern India, 1707 A. D. to 2000 A. Atlantic Publishers...
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    numbers of Sikhs to volunteer for the army. ===Quit India movement or the Bharat Chhodo Andolan The British sent a high level Cripps Mission in 1942 to secure...
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    From Plassey to Partition: A History of Modern India. Orient Longman. pp. 523 (at p 406). ISBN 978-81-250-2596-2. Peasant Struggles in India, by Akshayakumar...
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    opinion within the British government, Sir Stafford Cripps was sent to India in March 1942. Since Cripps was a well known Congress sympathiser who had earlier...
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    British Raj (redirect from Empire of India)
    not support the Cripps Mission and negotiations with the Congress soon broke down. Congress launched the Quit India Movement in July 1942 demanding the...
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    disobedience, and was arrested in 1940 and imprisoned for nine months. He also opposed the proposals of the Cripps' mission in 1942. Patel lost more than twenty...
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    followed the failed Cripps mission by demanding, in August 1942, that the British immediately "Quit India", proclaiming a mass campaign of satyagraha until...
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    the mission's proposal of 16 June 1946 that envisaged the partition of India, Azad became a strong proponent of the mission's earlier proposal of 16 May...
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    government sent a delegation to India under Stafford Cripps, in what came to be known as the Cripps' Mission. The purpose of the mission was to negotiate with the...
    149 KB (18,029 words) - 12:32, 28 September 2024
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    Radcliffe Line (category Partition of India)
    for the provinces of Punjab and Bengal during the Partition of India. It is named after Cyril Radcliffe, who, as the joint chairman of the two boundary...
    76 KB (9,118 words) - 23:35, 28 September 2024
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    Governor-General of India and oversaw the Partition of India into India and Pakistan. He then served as the first Governor-General of the Union of India until June...
    151 KB (14,325 words) - 06:41, 24 September 2024
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    for partition, publishing journals, advocating political rights and social freedom for Dalits, and contributing to the establishment of the state of India...
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  • appointed by the Court of Directors of the East India Company (EIC). The Court of Directors assigned a Council of Four (based in India) to assist the Governor-General...
    46 KB (842 words) - 13:00, 19 September 2024
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    latter's refusal to co-operate with Cripps, but the two later reconciled. In 1942, Gandhi called on the British to leave India; Nehru, though reluctant to embarrass...
    213 KB (22,062 words) - 16:29, 25 September 2024
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    Syama Prasad Mukherjee (category Members of the Constituent Assembly of India)
    Ramesh Chandra (1978), History of Modern Bengal, Oxford University Press Mishra, Basanta Kumar (2004), The Cripps Mission: A Reappraisal, Concept Publishing...
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    United Kingdom–United States relations in World War II (category Bilateral relations of the United States)
    immediately and the Cripps mission failed. Roosevelt gave support to Congress, sending his representative Louis Johnson to help negotiate some sort of independence...
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