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...became closer to the Mahatma. Although Gandhi did not officially designate him his political heir until 1942, the country as early as the mid-1930s saw in Nehru the natural successor to Gandhi. The Gandhi–Irwin pact of March 1931, signed between the Mahatma and the British viceroy, Lord Irwin (later Lord Halifax), signalized a truce between the two principal protagonists in India. It...
...of the Viceroy’s Council (1920–23), and a delegate to the three Round Table Conferences in London (1930–32) concerning the government of India. His mediation helped to bring about the Gandhi–Irwin Pact (1931), by which the Indian nationalist leader Mohandas K. Gandhi terminated a civil-disobedience campaign and was allowed to attend the second Round Table Conference. Sapru...
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