INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Gandhi-Irwin Pact, agreement signed on March 5, 1931, between Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist movement, and Lord Irwin (later Lord Halifax), British viceroy (1926–31) of India.

Detailed explanation-2: -On 5 March, 1931, Gandhi and Irwin signed a peace pact in which both parties agreed to conditions put forth by the other. According to this pact, Irwin agreed to release those who had been imprisoned during the movement and to allow Indians to make salt for domestic use.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Gandhi–Irwin Pact was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and the then Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin on 5 March 1931 before the Second Round Table Conference in London. The following were the proposed conditions: Stopping of the civil disobedience movement by the Indian National Congress.

Detailed explanation-4: -This pact was signed by Gandhi to release the prisoners who weren’t violent during the Civil Disobedience Movement that was very brutally stopped by the British then the impact was signed.

Detailed explanation-5: -The pact made the British Government concede some demands. They are: (i)To withdraw all ordinances and prosecutions. (ii) To release all the political prisoners, (iii) to restore the confiscated properties of the satyagarhis, (iv) to permit the free collection or manufacture of salt.