Cripps Mission (1942), Cabinet Mission Plan (1946) and the Indian Independence Act (1947)

Britain spent five years, one world war, and three separate missions trying to hand India over on its own terms. Each attempt failed a little differently — Cripps offered too little too late, the Cabinet Mission's careful federal compromise fell apart within months, and by 1947 the only thing left to negotiate was how fast, not whether, British rule would end.

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The Cripps Mission of 1942 offered post-war dominion status but was rejected as too little too late; the Cabinet Mission Plan of 1946 proposed a complex federal compromise that collapsed within months over League-Congress disagreement; and the Indian Independence Act, 1947, then transferred power on an accelerated timetable with partition attached.

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