Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin signed a pact. Mention any four terms of this pact.

The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed on 5 March 1931. Its terms included: (1) The Congress agreed to SUSPEND the Civil Disobedience Movement and to take part in the Second Round Table Conference in London. (2) The Government agreed to RELEASE all political prisoners who had not been convicted of violence. (3) The Government agreed to WITHDRAW the repressive ordinances and to return the confiscated properties of the satyagrahis. (4) Indians living near the coast were permitted to MAKE SALT free of duty for their own use, and peaceful picketing of liquor and foreign cloth shops was allowed.

Four marks, four terms, and the date in your opening line. Balance the answer: two concessions BY the Congress and two BY the Government. A list from only one side misses the character of a pact — it was an agreement between equals, which is itself significant, since the Viceroy was negotiating with a man he had imprisoned. The salt concession is the term most often forgotten and the most telling, since salt was what the whole movement had been about.