ABSTRACT
Sir Stafford Cripps became leader of the House of Commons and Lord Privy Seal, replacing Churchill and Clement Attlee, Labour Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister, in mid-February 1942.1 He took the Churchill-inspired Offer of limited self-government to India in March 1942, suggesting the speed with which the Prime Minister reacted to the mounting pressure on him to reach agreement with Indians over their immediate political future. America’s war-related interest in India was the galvanising factor.
