UPSC Prelims 2016 Question:

The plan of Sir Stafford Cripps envisaged that after the Second World War

Explanation:

• Cripps Mission, under Sir Stafford Crips was sent to India in 1942, in order to get the support of India in World War II.
• It recommended for: 
  • A constituent assembly to be convened to frame a new constitution.
  • Any province not willing to join the Union could have a separate constitution and form a separate Union.
  • An Indian Dominion that will be free to decide its relations with the commonwealth and United Nations.
    
    
• The proposal of India being granted complete independence, with the partition formula, was given by Lord Mountbatten in 1947. 
  
  
• There was no proposal that stated India should be made a republic with the condition that she will join the Commonwealth.
  
  

Therefore, option (4) is the correct answer.

Subject: History | Indian National Movement