Declaration Project

Declaration of Independence, or Purna Swaraj, of the Indian National Congress (1930)

Editor’s note: Drafted on behalf of the Indian National Congress by Mahatma Gandhi, this declaration of independence was issued on January 26, 1930. Gandhi’s reasoning in the opening sentence for why India should be a sovereign state free of British rule is that,  “it is the inalienable right of the Indian people,” as a people, […]