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India in 1930

Historical records for India in 1930, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

11Records
8Events
6Named people
3Places
6Categories

Historical records

January

26 January 1930Arrest of Mohandas Karamchand GandhiMohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Politics / Congress Party

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

May

4 May 1930Arrest of Indira Nehru GandhiIndira Nehru Gandhi

Politics / National Congress

Arrested by the British

Other Events

1930CommissionMohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Politics / Congress Party

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

1930Conference of Round TableAga Khan III

London · Politics / Muslim League

Leads the British delegation

1930Conference of Round TableAga Khan III

London · Religion / Islam

Leads the British delegation

1930DemonstrationsIndira Nehru Gandhi

Politics / National Congress

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

1930DemonstrationsMohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Politics / Congress Party

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

1930DemonstrationsMotilal Nehru

Politics / Congress Party

Advocates a plan of civil disobedience

1930Independence of IndiaMohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Politics / Congress Party

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

1930Nobel Prize in PhysicsChandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Stockholm · Science / Physics

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

1930White Dwarf LimitSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Cambridge · Science / Astronomy

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

Names involved

Aga Khan IIIChandrasekhara Venkata RamanIndira Nehru GandhiMohandas Karamchand GandhiMotilal NehruSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Places involved

CambridgeLondonStockholm

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.