द इण्डियन स्ट्रगल / भारतीय स्वाधीनता संग्राम (नेताजी सुभाष चन्द्र बोस - ऐतिहासिक विश्लेषण)

THE GANDHI-IRWIN PACT AND AFTER 229
Mahatma Gandhi on behalf of the Congress agreed:

1. To suspend the Civil-Disobedience Movement.
2. To participate in the deliberations of the forthcoming
   Round Table Conference for drafting a Constitution
   for India on the basis of (a) Federation; (b) Respon-
   sibility and (c) adjustments and safeguards that may
   be necessary in the interests of India.
3. To forego the demand for an investigation into the
   allegations of police atrocities in different parts of
   India.
   The Viceroy on behalf of the Government agreed:
4. To release simultaneously all political prisoners
   incarcerated in connection with the non-violent
   movement.
5. To restore confiscated property and land to the
   owners where it had not been already sold or auctioned
   by the Government.
6. To withdraw the emergency ordinances.
7. To permit people who live within a certain distance
   of the seashore to collect or manufacture salt free of
   duty.
8. To permit peaceful picketing of liquor, opium and
   foreign-cloth shops, the last item designed not as a
   discrimination against British goods but as an
   encouragement to the Swadeshi movement (i.e.,
   indigenous industries).
   The politically trained section of the people could analyse
   the terms of the Pact and to them it was a great disappoint-
   ment. Youth organisations in the country, taken as a whole,
   were also dissatisfied. But to the mass of the people, it
   appeared as a great victory for the Congress. Only in Bengal
   was there no public enthusiasm and for reasons which will
   be presently explained. With the announcement of the armis-
   tice, the official machinery of the Congress began to work
   expeditiously and with great efficiency. The Working Com-
   mittee decided to hold the annual session of the Congress
   at Karachi and suspending the constitutional procedure for