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INDIA - FREEDOM
STRUGGLE - GANDHI-IRWIN PACT |
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Date-wise Events |
- March 05, 1931: It was a
political agreement signed by
Mahatma Gandhi and the then Viceroy of India,
Lord Irwin on this day, before the second Round Table
Conference to be held in London.
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Description |
- Earlier in October 1929, the British authorities had
announced an offer of a 'dominion status' for India but in
very vague terms and after convening a Round Table
Conference to discuss a future constitution.
- After several rounds of discussions between the two,
Mahatma Gandhi started feeling impressed by Irwin’s
sincerity. The proposed conditions to the truce were as
follows:
- 1. Discontinuation of the civil disobedience
movement by the Indian National Congress
- 2. Participation by the Indian National Congress in
the Round Table Conference
- 3. Withdrawal of all ordinances issued by the
British Government imposing curbs on the activities of
the Indian National Congress
- 4. Withdrawal of all prosecutions relating to
several types of offenses except those involving
violence
- 5. Release of prisoners arrested for participating
in the civil disobedience movement
- 6. Removal of the tax on salt.
- The Britishers agreed to the following:
- 1. Withdraw all ordinances and end prosecutions, and
release all political prisoners, except those guilty of
violence
- 2. Permit peaceful picketing of liquor and foreign
cloth shops;
- 3. Restore confiscated properties of the satyagrahis
- 4. Permit free collection or manufacture of salt by
persons near the sea-coast;
- 5. Lift the ban over the congress.
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