Question
Download Solution PDFThe Gandhi-Irwin pact is also known as
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Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Delhi Pact.
Key Points
- Members of Congress Working Committee were released on 25 January 1931.
- Discussions were initiated between Gandhiji and the viceroy, Lord Irwin.
- As a result of these discussions, a pact was signed between the viceroy and Gandhiji.
- This pact came to be known as Gandhi-Irwin Pact or Delhi Pact.
- It was signed in Delhi.
- Gandhi-Irwin Pact, agreement signed on March 5, 1931, between Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist movement, and Lord Irwin British viceroy of India.
Additional Information
- Civil Disobedience Movement
- The Civil Disobedience Movement was started by Gandhi on 12th March 1930 with his famous Dandi March.
- Together with 78 chosen followers, Gandhi walked nearly 375 km from Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi, a village on the Gujarat sea coast.
- On the morning of 6th April 1930, Gandhiji broke the salt law by making salt. Thousands of people followed suit.
- This movement resulted in Gandhi-Irwin Pact on 5 March 1931.
- Indians were allowed to make salt for domestic use.
- Gandhiji attended the Second Round Table Conference in London as an ‘equal’.
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