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good."32 He was sentenced to six years imprisonment and was released after twenty-two months when he had an appendectomy.
Around the time of Gandhi's arrest, the non-cooperation by the Khilafat movement also subsided. However Hindu-Muslim unity got misdirected into large scale attacks by members of one community on the other.33 Gandhi was so upset that he went on a fast for twenty-one days. 34
In 1928, Gandhi announced a Satyagraha campaign led by Vallabhbhai Patel in Bardoli against a twenty-two percent increase in British-imposed taxes. Finally the Government agreed to increase the assessments by five percent instead of twenty two percent, release all the prisoners, and return confiscated land and property."
On October 31, 1929, Viceroy Irwin announced the goal of dominion status. This declaration was criticized in the British press, and both the Conservative and Liberal parties opposed it in Parliament. Viceroy Irwin could not promise dominion status to Gandhi, Motilal Nehru, Vithalbhai Patel, Jinnah, and Tej Bahadur Sapru on December 23, 1929. The Congress passed a resolution for Sampoorna Swaraj on 31 December 1929 at Lahore session and Gandhi was asked to decide regarding the civil disobedience movement to be taken up towards this objective.
Salt Tax36 /Dandi March: 1930-1931 After proclaiming the Declaration of Independence of India on January 26, 1930, Gandhi came to an impasse in his political career focused on freeing India from British rule. A new antigovernment campaign was imperative for achieving the Sampoorna Swaraj of India for its people. It remained unclear to
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