Question

Give two salient features of Gandhi Irwin Pact.

Answer 1

Hint: - The Gandhi-Irwin pact was signed in the year 1931 before the Second Round Table Conference.
-It was Viceroy’s idea to formulate a pact so that Gandhiji could cancel the mass movement and participate in the second round table conference.
-According to the pact there were many positive gains for the INC.

Complete answer:
-The Mahatma Gandhi Irwin settlement was signed by Mahatma Gandhi and the British Indian Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin on 5 March 1931.
-The settlement was endorsed before the beginning of the second round table gathering in London.
-Before Mahatma Gandhi Irwin's settlement scorched; the emissary in 1929 had given an unclear proposal about the Dominion status.

Features of the pact: -
-The Congress, according to the settlement, consented to end the Non-Cooperation Movement and take an interest in the Second Round Table Conference.
-The British authority, consequently, consented to release all political detainees to spare each one of those engaged with violence.
-It likewise consented to pull out all statutes that checked the INC from its exercises and permit the tranquil picketing of alcohol and unfamiliar garments shops.
-The public authority likewise agreed to lift the prohibition on the INC and return the seized properties of all the Satyagrahis. At last, the public authority would permit the assortment and creation of salt by Indians at the coasts, that is, disavow the salt duty.
-It likewise consented to treat those administration workers who had surrendered in the wake of the common insubordination call permissively.

Additional Information
The controversy surrounding the pact was the pardoning of capital punishment of Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev and sentencing them to a life sentence. It is said that Gandhiji may have saved them by not signing the pact but it is all a one-sided story.

Note:- The Second Round Table Conference was held from September to December 1931 in London. Lord Willingdon was the Viceroy then and Gandhi represented the Indian National Congress.
-The meeting was fizzled as Gandhi couldn't concur on the strategy of Communal Representation and the refusal of the British Government for the fundamental Indian interest for the opportunity.