Political Science · Political Institutions in India
UGC NET June 2019 Political Science
Members of the Cabinet Mission Plan were
ALord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A.V. Alexander ✓ Correct
BSir Stafford Cripps, A.V. Alexander and Lord Wavell
CLord Pethick-Lawrence, A.V. Alexander and Lord Ripon
DSir Stafford Cripps, Lord Mountbatten and Lord Pethick Lawrence
Correct answer: (A) Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A.V. Alexander — The members of the Cabinet Mission were Lord Pethick Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A.V. Alexander, which is option (1).
Explanation
★The members of the Cabinet Mission were Lord Pethick Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A.V. Alexander, which is option (1).
★The Cabinet Mission came to India in 1946, sent by the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, to plan the transfer of power.
★Lord Pethick Lawrence was the Secretary of State for India and headed the Mission.
★Sir Stafford Cripps was the President of the Board of Trade and had earlier led the Cripps Mission of 1942.
★A.V. Alexander was the First Lord of the Admiralty in the British cabinet.
★The Mission rejected the demand for a full sovereign Pakistan and proposed instead a loose three tier federal structure for a united India.
★The three tiers were the provinces, groups of provinces, and a weak union at the Centre handling only defence, foreign affairs and communications.
★The provinces were placed in three groups, broadly Group A with Hindu majority provinces and Groups B and C with Muslim majority provinces.
★The Mission also provided for the formation of a Constituent Assembly, elected indirectly by the provincial assemblies in 1946.
★The option with Lord Wavell is wrong, since Wavell was the Viceroy at the time and not a member of the visiting Mission.
★The option with Lord Ripon is wrong, since Ripon was a nineteenth century Viceroy famous for local self government reforms, not a 1946 figure.
★The option with Lord Mountbatten is wrong, since Mountbatten arrived later, in 1947, as the last Viceroy to oversee the transfer of power.
★The Cabinet Mission Plan eventually broke down over the dispute about compulsory versus optional grouping of provinces.
★Its lasting outcome was the Constituent Assembly, which first met in December 1946 and went on to frame the Constitution.
★For NET, fix the three names, Pethick Lawrence, Cripps and Alexander, and the three subjects left to the Centre, defence, foreign affairs and communications.
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