Question

Mahatma Gandhi participated in the Second Round Table conference after ____.
A. Signing the Gandhi-Irwin Pact of March 1931
B. Refusing to hold direct talks with the Muslim League
C. Being permitted by the Congress
D. Receiving assurance that independence was fast coming

Answer 1

Hint:The Second Round Conference occurred on 7 September 1931 in London. Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu represented Indian National Congress. Other important figures like Madan Mohan Malaviya, Ghanshyam Das Birla, Muhammad Iqbal, Sir Mirza Ismail Diwan of Mysore, S K Dutta and Sir Syed Ali Imam were also present in the conference. The conference happened right after the political agreement between Mahatma Gandhi and then Viceroy of India.

Complete answer:
Mahatma Gandhi attended the Second Round Table conference right after the Gandhi Irwin Pact. Gandhi – Irwin pact was a political agreement between Gandhi and the viceroy of India at the time, Lord Irwin. The aspects of the pact included. Some of the features of the pact were:
1] Release of prisoners those are kept inside only for their political stand without any form of Violence.
2] Lifting the ban on making the salt within the villages on the coastal area for their consumption.
3] Continuation of Civil Disobedience Movement by INC yet participation in the Round Table Conference.
4] Nonviolent modes of picketing over foreign clothes and liquor shops was to be permitted.
The conference was a failure as Gandhi didn’t agree on the policy of Communal Representation and the refusal of the British Government for the basic Indian demand for freedom.in the same conference Chaudhary Rahmat Ali proposed the name of the new land separated from India only for the Muslims. The suggested name was Pakistan.

Hence, the correct answer is option (A).

Note:The sole effect of this session occurred when the division between minorities and Congress went widening. All the minorities (including the Dalits) decided to have their own separate electorate, except for the Sikhs. The discussion led to the passing of the Government of India Act 1935 , yet the Governor of the United Provinces was happy to be rid of Gandhi's campaigns "playing havoc with six or seven million tenants in the UP."