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Gandhi attends the Second Round Table Conference in London as Congress’s sole delegate

In autumn 1931 Gandhi sat in London as the Indian National Congress’s sole delegate to the Second Round Table Conference. In the causal graph this event strengthens Democratic Resilience, a driver that strengthens Having a say in government — an improving welfare path.

Sources: [1][2]

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In autumn 1931 Gandhi sat in London as the Indian National Congress’s sole delegate to the Second Round Table Conference. It failed to produce a constitution. Failure does not delete the appearance as a public political act.

Context

Sole delegateship concentrated a movement in one body and excluded other Indian voices, including Ambedkar’s separate presence. Improving path: a colonised party at an imperial table. The exclusion cost is partly the Poona story of 1932.

Mahatma Gandhi is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A conference badge is not swaraj. Churchill’s press campaign is another row.

A conference badge is not swaraj.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Mahatma Gandhi

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He designed, walked, fasted, wrote, or negotiated; Congress, ashram, family, or opponents shared the act.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactGandhi attends the Second Round Table Conference in London as Congress’s sole delegate
    2. strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
    3. strengthensIndicators (3)Having a say in government
    Improving path

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 12 September 1931 · verified

    A conference badge is not swaraj. Churchill’s press campaign is another row.

    • Having a say in government

      via Democratic Resilience

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.28 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.7)

      Observed

      29.8% of population aged 16-65 years · 8.13 below the normal line (2023)

      Worse than normal

      Two readings: 30.2% of population aged 16-65 years (2021) and 29.8% of population aged 16-65 years (2023).

      20212023

      Above normal = better

    • Clean elections index

      via Democratic Resilience

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      0.53 score from 0 to 1 · 0.34 below the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.17 score from 0 to 1 to 0.53 score from 0 to 1.

      Above normal = better

    • WJP Rule of Law Index (global)

      via Democratic Resilience

      Better

      Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.4 × strength 0.45)

      Observed

      0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)

      Worse than normal

      Above normal = better

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Gandhi Heritage Portal — Chronology: Round Table Conference and LondonGandhi Heritage Portal (Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust) · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti (Government of India) — The Second Round Table Conference in LondonGandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, Government of India · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorMahatma Gandhi
  2. contributed toFactGandhi attends the Second Round Table Conference in London as Congress’s sole delegate
  3. strengthensDriverDemocratic Resilience
  4. strengthensIndicatorHaving a say in government

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Factrail. (2026). Gandhi attends the Second Round Table Conference in London as Congress’s sole delegate. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ga-round-table-1931

https://factrail.ai/facts/ga-round-table-1931

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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