Gandhi – Irwin Pact

  • Launch and Parties Signed: The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was an agreement signed on March 5, 1931, between Mohandas K. Gandhi and Lord Irwin, British viceroy (1926–31) of India.
  • Result: It marked the end of a period of civil disobedience (satyagraha) in India against British rule.
  • Other Name: The Gandhi-Irwin Pact, also known as the Delhi Pact.
  • Significance: Equalised Congress and the government and was to lay the groundwork for the Round Table Conference to be held in England.
  • The Gandhi-Irwin Pact
    • Lord Irwin Agreed
      • Immediate release of all political prisoners not convicted of violence.
      • Remission of all fines not yet collected.
      • Return of all lands not yet sold to third parties.
      • Lenient treatment to those government servants who had resigned.
      • Right to make salt in coastal villages for personal consumption (not for sale).
      • Right to peaceful and non-aggressive picketing.
      • Withdrawal of emergency ordinances.
    • Lord Irwin Disagreed on
      • Public inquiry into police excesses
      • Commutation of Bhagat Singh and his comrades’ death sentence to life sentence.
    • Gandhi Agreed
      • To suspend the civil disobedience movement.
      • To participate in the next Round Table Conference.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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