Lord Irwin

Lord Irwin (1926-31)

1. Appointment of the Indian States Commission under Harcourt Butler (1927) to recommend measures for the establishment of better relations between the Indian states and the central government.

2. All India Youth Congress was formed in 1928.

3. Deepavali Declaration (1929) that India would be granted dominion status in due course.

4. Royal Commission on Indian labour was appointed in 1929, gave its report in 1931.

5. Sarda Act was passed in 1929. Marriage of girls below 14 and boys below 18 years of age was prohibited.

6. Indian school of Mines opened in Dhanbad.

7. Royal Commission on Agriculture constituted in 1927.

8. Meerut conspiracy case.

9. Simon Commisson was announced in 1927 and visited India in 1928.

10. The death of Lala Lajpat Rai, following the lathi charge on a protest March against the Simon Commission.

11. Nehru Report (1928), which was an effort by the political parties of India to draft a sample Constitution for India, following the remark of Lord Birkenhead, the Secretary of State for India, that the Indians were not mature enough to formulate a Constitution.

12. Jinnah formulates 14 points after Nehru Report.

13. Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutta drop bombs in the Legislative Assembly.

14. The Lahore Session of the Congress and the Declaration of Poorna Swaraj (1929).

15. January 26, 1930 was celebrated as “Independence Day” by the Congress. Thereafter, January 26 was observed as “Independence Day”.

16. Gandhi starts his Dandi March (12th March, 1930) which marked the beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM)famous “Salt Satyagraha” was inaugurated by Gandhiji at Dandi on 6th April by making salt, to defy the Salt Act.

17. Chittagong armoury raid.

18. First Round Table Conference (RTC) without the congress participation, took place in 1930.

19. Gandhi - Irwin pact (5th March 1931). Gandhiji agreed to withdraw the CDM and participate in the Second RTC.

20. Bahgat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were hanged on 23rd March, 1931.