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1930 in India

Explore 12 historical events and records for India in 1930.

Historical records for India in 1930

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January

Arrest of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand ยท Party Leader of CP ยท Politics / Congress Party

Released from prison to have talks with the British colonial Government in India

May

Arrest of Indira Nehru Gandhi

Gandhi, Indira Nehru ยท Politics / National Congress

Arrested by the British

Other events (month unknown)

Commission

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand ยท Party Leader of CP ยท Politics / Congress Party

The Simon Commission is published, Ghandi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement

Conference of Round Table

Khan III, Aga ยท London ยท Politics / Muslim League

Leads the British delegation

Conference of Round Table

Khan III, Aga ยท London ยท Religion / Islam

Leads the British delegation

Demonstrations

Gandhi, Indira Nehru ยท Politics / National Congress

Leads the salt march 240 miles to the coast in defiance of the salt tax

Demonstrations

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand ยท Party Leader of CP ยท Politics / Congress Party

The Simon Commission is published, Ghandi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement

Demonstrations

Nehru, Motilal ยท Politics / Congress Party

Advocates a plan of civil disobedience

Independence of India

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand ยท Party Leader of CP ยท Politics / Congress Party

The Simon Commission is published, Ghandi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement

Nobel Prize

Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata ยท Stockholm ยท Physicist ยท Science / Physics

Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on the scattering of light and for discovering the optical effect now known as the Raman effect.

Nobel Prize in Physics

Raman, Chandrasekhara Venkata ยท Stockholm ยท Physicist ยท Science / Physics

C. V. Raman receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on light scattering and the discovery of the Raman effect.

White Dwarf Limit

Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan ยท Cambridge ยท Astrophysicist ยท Science / Astronomy

Chandrasekhar combines quantum statistics with special relativity and identifies an upper mass beyond which a white dwarf cannot remain stable.

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