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HISTORY: August Offer-1940: During the Second World War, the Indian National Congress (INC) Leaders were upset with the British Government for having pulled India into a war without the consent of Indians. Lord Linlithgow had declared India to be at war with Germany without consultation. The British Government were keen to get Indian support for the war. INC said that support for the war would be provided if power was transferred to an Interim Government in India. Then the viceroy Linlithgow made a set of proposals called the “August Offer”. A representative Indian body should be framed to frame a Constitution for India. Dominion status was the objective for India. An advisory war council should be established. The INC rejected this offer at its meeting at Wardha in August 1940. After the failure of the August offer, the British government sent the Cripps Mission to India. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...