Britain’s position on India at 2nd World War-Stafford Cripps’ Statement-reaction from Gandhi & Nehru-27.07.1942

We offered the representative Indian political leaders immediate office in the Viceroy’s Executive Council, a body of ministers like those who advise your President. Mr. Gandhi has demanded that we should walk out of India leaving the country, with its deep-rooted religious divisions, without any constitutional form of government and with no organized administration.