Question

Who introduced the August Offer on 8 August 1940?
A.Lord Linlithgow
B.The Lord Pethick
C.Leo Amery
D.Lord Mountbatten

Answer 1

Hint:
He was a British Unionist government official, agriculturalist, and frontier chairman. He served as Governor-General and Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943.
He filled in as VP of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Chancellor of the University of Edinburghand Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Complete Answer:
On 8 August 1940, from the get-go in the Battle of Britain, the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, made the supposed "August Offer'' at Simla, a new proposition promising the development of the Executive Council to incorporate more Indians, the foundation of a warning war committee, offering full weight to minority input, and the acknowledgment of Indians' entitlement to outline their own constitution (after the finish of the war). Consequently, it was trusted that all gatherings and networks in India would participate in Britain's war exertion in World War ll.
Anyway this proposition was dismissed by the Congress as the minorities, particularly the Muslim League, were guaranteed that no sacred plan was adequate to the public authority without their arrangement, for example giving a rejection capacity to the Muslim League. The Muslim League acknowledged the proposal as it gave an unmistakable affirmation that a different Pakistan would be set up.

Hence, Option A is correct.

Note:
The August Offer was an attempt to make sure about the collaboration of the Indians in World War II. Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of England at that point.
Significant recommendations of August offer were:
1)Dominion status as the goal for India.
2)Expansion of emissary chief gathering
3)No future constitution to be received without the assent of the minorities.
4)Setting up of a constituent get together after the war where essentially Indians would choose the constitution as indicated by their social, monetary and political origins.