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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 ...
Gandhi was not one of the signatories of the Poona Pact, but his son, Devdas Gandhi, did sign the pact. [5] Gandhi, then imprisoned by the British, had embarked on a fast unto death to protest against the decision made by British prime minister Ramsay MacDonald, responding to arguments made by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in the Round Table ...
The Indians hope that Gandhi will use his pact with Irwin as an opportunity to save Bhagat, Sukhdev, and Rajguru's lives. 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".
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
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.
Later, when Gandhi signed the Gandhi Irwin pact, all the four demands were avoided at that time. Under the pact, Gandhi had accepted to participate in the second Round Table Conference after holding back the Civil Disobedience Movement. It was read as a compromise by the supporters of Nationalist and especially by the Indian Capitalists who had ...
Sapru mediated between Gandhi and the Viceroy Lord Irwin, helping to forge the Gandhi–Irwin Pact that ended the Salt Satyagraha. [citation needed] Sapru also mediated between Gandhi, B. R. Ambedkar and the British over the issue of separate electorates for India's "Untouchables", which was settled by the Poona Pact.