Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Consider the following features of a political proposal:

  • Indian cooperation in the war was offered conditionally.
  • A constituent assembly was to determine the political structure of a free India after the war.
  • A genuinely responsible government was to be established immediately at the Centre.

Which one of the following is described above?

  1. August Offer
  2. Congress offer to the viceroy in 1939
  3. Cripps proposals
  4. Linlithgow’s statement of October 1939
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