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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 ...
The fortnight-long discussions resulted in the Gandhi–Irwin Pact of 5 March 1931, after which the Civil Disobedience Movement and the boycott of British goods were suspended in exchange for a Second Round Table Conference that represented all interests. [10] The salient points were: The Congress would discontinue the Civil Disobedience Movement.
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.
Gandhi–Irwin Pact (1931) Execution of Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru, and Sukhdev Thapar (1931) F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead; William Peel, Viscount Peel; Stanley Baldwin; Ramsay MacDonald; George Goschen, 2nd Viscount Goschen (acting) (1866–1952) 29 June 1929: 11 November 1929 William Peel, Viscount Peel, William Wedgwood Benn
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.
Irwin refuses Gandhi's request for their release. Gandhi reluctantly agrees to sign a pact that includes the clause: "Release of political prisoners except for the ones involved in violence". Bhagat, Sukhdev, and Rajguru are hanged in secrecy on 23rd March 1931 even before their trial on 24 March 1931.
The Gandhi–Irwin Pact was signed in March 1931. The British Government agreed to free all political prisoners, in return for the suspension of the civil disobedience movement. According to the pact, Gandhi was invited to attend the Round Table Conference in London for discussions and as the sole representative of the Indian National Congress.