The Gandhi-Irwin Pact, by which the Civil Disobedience Movement was suspended, was signed on:
- A.5 March 1931
- B.12 March 1930
- C.24 September 1932
- D.8 August 1942
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, 5 March 1931. Also called the Delhi Pact, it was signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Viceroy Lord Irwin. Gandhi agreed to suspend the Civil Disobedience Movement and to attend the Second Round Table Conference in London, while the government agreed to release political prisoners not guilty of violence, return confiscated property and allow people on the coast to make salt for their own use. Option B, 12 March 1930, is the day the Dandi March began. Option C, 24 September 1932, is the date of the Poona Pact between Gandhi and Ambedkar. Option D, 8 August 1942, is the date the All India Congress Committee passed the Quit India resolution in Bombay, after which the movement began. Note also that the pact is the only agreement the Viceroy signed with Gandhi as an equal, and that the Congress attended the Second Round Table Conference as its consequence.
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- B.Treaty of Allahabad
- C.Treaty of Salbai
- D.Treaty of Purandar
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- B.Second Anglo-Maratha War
- C.Second Anglo-Mysore War
- D.Third Anglo-Maratha War
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- B.Peshwa Baji Rao II
- C.Ranjit Singh
- D.Nizam of Hyderabad
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- B.Second Anglo-Mysore War
- C.Third Anglo-Mysore War
- D.Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
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Read the full explanation →The Poona Pact of 1932 was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and:
- A.Dr B. R. Ambedkar
- B.Lord Irwin
- C.Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- D.Madan Mohan Malaviya
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