Delhi Pact 5 March 1931: Congress to attend the second RTC, ordinances withdrawn, non-violent prisoners released, salt for personal use, no inquiry into police excesses, no commutation for Bhagat Singh
Whole chapter · 22–32 focused hours
The Gandhian phase 1915-1939
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading and little retained modern history. Later chronological chapters assume earlier phases have been studied. History optional and basic literacy remediation are outside this plan.
Includes
- Selected primary readings and historical maps/source extracts
- A short chronology or comparison notes
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full mock examinations
- Reading every reference book, appendix or optional exercise in full
- Exclude full peasant/labour/revolutionary organisation histories, constitutional provisions and the 1939–1947 phase, each separately assigned.
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
Where to study this topic
- Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond ↗
Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement, 3.2 Dialogues, p. 15 (printed 300)
- India's Struggle for Independence 1857-1947 (Bipan Chandra and others), OCR text of the Digital Library of India scan, Internet Archive item in.ernet.dli.2015.130998 ↗
ch. 22 Civil Disobedience 1930-1932, pp. 270-283
- UPSC Detailed (Micro Topic) Syllabus, Modern History (GS SCORE) ↗
heading: Indian National Movement III (1930-1947)
Whole chapter reading
- Our Pasts III, Class VIII, Chapter 8: The Making of the National Movement: 1870s-1947 ↗
Gandhi’s arrival through the mass movements of the 1920s and 1930s
- Themes in Indian History Part III, Class XII, Theme 11 Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist Movement: Civil Disobedience and Beyond ↗
Early satyagrahas, non-cooperation, civil disobedience and sources; stop before the 1942/1947 narrative assigned to Towards freedom.
- India’s Struggle for Independence, publisher edition record ↗
Chapters 14–15, 19, 21–23, 25–26 and the pre-war Tripuri discussion in chapter 34; select the passages relevant to this chapter rather than rereading events assigned elsewhere.
Book required - Courseware on Modern Indian History, 4th edition (Sonali Bansal and Snehil Tripathi) ↗
Unit 6, chapters 7, 9–10, 16–19: Gandhian methods, non-cooperation, council politics and civil disobedience; Appendix 1 for session decisions.
Book required