8 agos 1940 anni - August Offer 1940- Aug, 8th

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In late 1939, World War II broke out. Germany had invaded Poland leading to Britain declaring war Germany. Without consulting Indians, Britain dragged India into the war irking India political groups.

To assuage the angry social sections,

On 8 August 1940, Viceroy of India Lord Linlithgow made a statement of behalf of British parliament which came to be known as the ‘August Offer’, which:
Proposed Dominion status as the objective for India
Promised that a Constituent Assembly would be set up after the war to determine India’s constitutional future with a caveat: no future system of government would be instituted that did not have the support of minority political and religious groups
Proposed to expand the Viceroy’s council to include a certain number of Indian political representatives, as a token towards Indian Self-Government.

In July 1941, the viceroy’s executive council was enlarged to give the Indians a majority of 8 out of 12 for the first time, but the British remained in charge of defence, finance and home.
Also, a National Defence Council was set up with purely advisory functions.

The satyagrahis also started the 'Delhi Chalo Movement,
Following this, Mahatma Gandhi launched the Individual Satyagraha.
The satyagrahis also started the 'Delhi Chalo Movement,
This movement did not gather popularity.

By the end of the year, most political parties rejected the Offer.
Thus, the British objective of garnering India’s cooperation in the war effort through the Offer was a spectacular failure.

Following the August Offer's failure, the British government dispatched the Cripps Mission to India in an attempt to gain Indian support for the war.

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