5 mars 1931 - Gandhi-Irwin Pact

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Gandhi-Irwin Pact, agreement signed between Mohandas K. Gandhi, leader of the Indian nationalist movement, and Lord Irwin (later Lord Halifax), British viceroy (1926–31) of India. It marked the end of a period of civil disobedience (satyagraha) in India against British rule that Gandhi and his followers had initiated with the Salt March (March–April 1930). As a clause in this agreement, all nonviolent political prisoners were freed.

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