Nehru - Benjamin Zachariah

Personal Political General

Oppressed Peoples in

Brussels.

November 1927:

Motilal and Jawaharlal

visit the Soviet Union.

End 1927: return to

India

1928 Jawaharlal disagrees Simon Commission;

with his father’s Report (Motilal) Nehru Report

which accepts

dominion status

instead of complete

independence

1929 Jawaharlal elected December 31, Purna Labour government

Congress president for Swaraj resolution: elected in Britain.

the first time. Also ‘Complete Wall Street Crash.

elected president of Independence’ Beginning of the Great

the All-India trade demanded by Congress Depression

Union Congress

1930 April 14, 1930 to March 12–April 6: Salt

October 11, 1930, and March. Inaugurates

October 19, 1930 to Civil Disobedience

January 1931: Jawaharlal Movement 1930–1.

in jail First Round Table

Conference in London on

new constitution for India,

boycotted by Congress

1931 February 6: death of March 5: Gandhi calls Ramsay MacDonald’s

Motilal Nehru. off civil disobedience; Labour government

December 26, 1931– Gandhi–Irwin Pact. collapses in Britain.

August 30, 1933 March: Karachi Replaced by ‘National’

Jawaharlal in jail Congress; Congress’s government;

first ‘socialist’ MacDonald remains

resolutions. prime minister

Winter 1931–2: Second

Round Table Conference.

Gandhi attends as the

sole Congress

representative

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