The Making of the National Movement 1870 to 1947 Test - 27

In Awadh, peasants were led by Baba Ram Chandra - a sanyasi who had earlier been to Fiji as an indentured labourer. The movement here was against talukdars and landlords who demanded from peasants exorbitantly high rents and a variety of other cesses.

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.
  
• Participation of Indian National Congress in the Second Round Table Conference. 
  
• Withdrawal of all laws issued by the British Government forcing checks on the exercises of the Indian National Congress.
  
• A release of prisoners arrested during Civil Disobedience Movement.
  
• Permit the free collection or manufacture of salt by persons near the seacoast.
  

After the passing of unjust Rowlatt act in 1919, Gandhiji launched a Satyagraha against it.

On the historic day of 12th March 1930, Gandhi inaugurated The Civil Disobedience Movement by conducting the historic Dandi Salt March, where he broke the Salt Laws imposed by the British Government. Followed by seventy nine ashramites, Gandhi embarked on his march from his Sabarmati Ashram to Dandi that is located on the shores of the Arabian Sea.

On 6th April 1930, Gandhi with the accompaniment of seventy nine satyagrahis, violated the Salt Law by picking up a fistful of salt lying on the sea shore. They manually made salt on the shores of Dandi. 

On 12th March 1930, Gandhi inaugurated the Civil Disobedience Movement by conducting the historic Dandi Salt March, where he was followed by 78 ashramites, who carried on the march with him to the shore of Arabian Sea at Dandi, where they broke the british salt law.

Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in January 1915.

At many places, merchants and traders refused to trade foreign goods or finance foreign trade. As the boycott movement spread, and people began discarding imported clothes and wearing only Indian ones, production of Indian textile mills and handlooms went up.

Non-cooperation movement was launched in the year 1920 against Rowlatt act that was passed in the year 1919 and lasted till 1922 when Gandhi had to suspend it after the Chauri Chaura incident.

As per the Poorna Swaraj  Resolution, the word Swaraj in the Congress Constitution would thenceforth mean Complete Independence or Purna Swaraj which was set forth as the goal of the National Movement. The resolution of Poorna Swaraj was adopted at the Lahore Session of  the Congress.

Aga Khan III was one of the founders and the first president of All India Muslim League. In 1906 he headed the Muslim deputation to the British viceroy, Lord Minto , to promote the interests of the Muslims minority in India.