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Why did the Cripps Mission visit India?

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(i) The Congress had organized a series of individual satyagrahas to pressurize the rulers to promise independence to Indians after the end of the Second World War.
(ii) So, in such a situation, in 1942 Winston Churchill, The Prime Minister of England, sent one of his ministers, Sir Stafford Cripps to India to forge a compromise with Gandhiji and the Congress. But his mission remained unfulfilled as the talks fell flat.
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