Editing Quit India Movement (section)

===Cripps mission===
In March 1942, faced with a dissatisfied sub-continent only reluctantly participating in the war and deterioration in the war situation in Europe and with growing dissatisfaction among Indian troops and among the civilian population in the sub-continent, the British government sent a delegation to India under [[Stafford Cripps]], the [[Leader of the House of Commons]], in what came to be known as the [[Cripps Mission]]. The purpose of the mission was to negotiate with the [[Indian National Congress]] a deal to obtain total co-operation during the war, in return for [[devolution]] and distribution of power from the crown and the [[Viceroy]] to an elected Indian legislature. The talks failed, as they did not address the key demand of a timetable of self-government and of the powers to be relinquished, essentially making an offer of limited dominion-status that was unacceptable to the Indian movement.<ref name="b" />