why did cripps mission come to india
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on 7th December 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and American Naval base in the Hawaii Island. Japan's entry to the war on the side of Germany was cause of great wife of Britain, USA and China. They got all the more worried by the Rapid city with which Japan over and countries one after the other in south east Asia. The Vir Das had come to the very border of India the efficient defence of India needed the fullest cooperation of the people of the country.
The British Prime Minister Mr Churchill was still not showing any eagerness to reach an agreement with the Indian leaders.Then came the pressure of president of USA . The result was that Sir Stafford Cripps a member of the British war cabinet was sent to India to solve the Indian problem. Sir Cripps arrived at Delhi in March 1942.
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The cripps mission was sent to india:
- To break the deadlock created in India by the rejection of the August Offer by both the Congress and the Muslim league.
- To solve the constitutional problems by consulting all the political parties in India
- To secure India’s full and active cooperation in the war efforts in the Second World War