AHC/WI: Successful Cripps' Mission

What it says on the tin.

OTL, Stanford Cripps' 1942 mission to India, where he offered India full Dominion status in exchange for full support in WW2 (there is apparently some debate as to whether Cripps was even authorized to offer this in the first place).

OTL, the mission failed due to a combination of of Cripps' inability to offer a short term plan for governance, and behind the scenes shenanigans by the Viceroy and the Secretary of State. But what if it had succeeded? If the Indian National Congress he accepted the offer, the subcontinent would have avoided partition (Jinnah only truly rose to prominence after he split with Gandhi over supporting the war, and endeared himself to the British). How could India have contributed, and how would this affect the war efforts?
 
You're missing the biggest problem with the Cripps Mission - Gandhi's comment that it was a "post-dated cheque drawn on a crashing bank" is always going to mean that he had very little to offer Congress that they didn't clearly see they would soon get anyway. I'm exploring this a bit in A Blunted Sickle (gratuitous plug), but the main conclusion so far is that to have a chance you need to avoid the Fall of France in 1940, and even then (with Congress returning to the Viceroy's Executive Council) things are tough.

So far as additional contributions that India could make, I'm really not sure that there are very many additional ones beyond reducing the level of UK forces they need to keep on the subcontinent - the OTL Indian Army is already the largest all-volunteer force the world has ever seen, and I'm pretty sure the rate of expansion wasn't limited by available manpower but by cadre and equipment.
 
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