The Delhi pact resulted. Gandhi agreed to discontinue civil disobedience and promised that the congress would recognize the round-table conferences; in return Lord Irwin agreed to release political prisoners who had not been guilty of violence.
A civil strike called by the congress to protest the execution of bomb-throwing Bhagat Singh turned into a Hindu-Muslim riot of unprecedented scale in Kanpur, United Provinces.
Second round-table conference. Gandhi went to London as sole representative of the congress, but the conference broke up without reaching agreement on the representation of religious and other minorities.
