British Proposals and Missions during National Movement

August Offer

• To secure the Support of Indian Leadership, 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; and
  • Proposed to expand the Viceroy’s council to include a certain number of Indian political representatives, as a ....