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The Gandhi–Irwin Pact was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, on 5 March 1931 before the Second Round Table Conference in London. [1] Before this, Irwin , the Viceroy, had announced in October 1929 a vague offer of ' dominion status ' for India in an unspecified future and a Round Table Conference ...
On January 26, 1931, Gandhi and other Congress leaders were freed from prison. The resulting discussions culminated in the Gandhi–Irwin Pact (1931) under which the Congress agreed to participate in a Second Round Table Conference. Although MacDonald was still Prime Minister of Britain, he was by this time heading a coalition Government (the ...
E. F. L. Wood, Lord Irwin (1881–1959) 3 April 1926 18 April 1931 Simon Commission (1928) Nehru Report (1928) Death of Lala Lajpat Rai (1928) Fourteen Points of Jinnah (1929) Purna Swaraj declaration (1929) Meerut Conspiracy Case (1929) Bombing in Central Legislative Assembly by Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt (8 April 1929)
Civil disobedience continued until early 1931, when Gandhi was finally released from prison to hold talks with Irwin. It was the first time the two held talks on equal terms, [82] and resulted in the Gandhi–Irwin Pact. The talks would lead to the Second Round Table Conference at the end of 1931.
As a result of the Gandhi Irwin Pact—signed on 5 March 1931—the Congress suspended the Civil Disobedience Movement and the British, in turn, released all the prisoners. Kamaraj was released eight days later.
25 January – Mohandas Gandhi released again. January – The All-Asian Women's Conference (AAWC) takes place in Lahore. 13 February – New Delhi becomes the capital of India. 27 February – Chandrasekhar Azad martyrdom in an encounter with the British in Allahabad. 4 March – British viceroy of India and Mohandas Gandhi negotiate.
Gandhi met Irwin on 23 November 1929 where Irwin, the Viceroy, rejected the offer given in Delhi Statement. In the meantime, Lala Lajpat Rai died because of Lathi Charge on 17 November 1928. Later, when Gandhi signed the Gandhi Irwin pact , all the four demands were avoided at that time.
[citation needed] In 1931, however, Naidu and other leaders of the Congress Party participated in the Second Round Table Conference headed by Viceroy Lord Irwin in the wake of the Gandhi-Irwin pact. [citation needed] Naidu was jailed by the British in 1932. [2] The British jailed Naidu again in 1942 for her participation in the Quit India ...