- 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.
- Lord Irwin Agreed