Tag: formation of the muslim league

Lucknow Congress session of 1916 adopted an agreement known as the Lucknow Pact. It marked the coming together of moderates and extremists in Congress on common platform again after nearly a decade and concession given by the Congress to the Muslim League. The Congress  agreed to the demand of separate electorates for Muslims in provincial council elections.d" in 1765.

D'DIVIDE ET IMPERA' was the policy used by Britishers to rule in India. It means to divide the opposition so that it stops to threaten your power. It is also called as "Divide and Rule." In case of India it was used to divide Hindu and Muslims.

The Muslim league was founded in 1906 at Dhaka to safeguard the rights of Indian Muslims. It was a political group that led the movement calling for a separate Muslim nation to be created at the time of the partition of British India in 1947 because it feared that an independent India would be dominated by Hindus. It also supported the partition of Bengal announced by Lord Curzon in 1905. The Hindi- Urdu controversy relating to the use of court language was also one of the factors responsible for the formation of the League.

On December 30, 1906, Muslim league was formed under the leadership of Aga Khan, the Nawab of Dhaka and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk at Dacca. It was formed  to safeguard the rights of Indian Muslims. Later, the league wanted a separate nation for India’s Muslims because it feared that an independent India would be dominated by Hindus.

Mohammad Iqbal is credited with the idea of Pakistan. He believed that Muslims are a distinct nation and thus deserve political independence from other regions and communities of India. He devised the idea of a north-western Muslim province when he became convinced that Muslims faced extinction in India. 

Mohammad Iqbal is credited with the idea of Pakistan. He believed that Muslims are a distinct nation and thus deserve political independence from other regions and communities of India. He devised the idea of a north-western Muslim province when he became convinced that Muslims faced extinction in India. 

The Home Rule League organization was established in 1915-16 during WW I, by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant. Many Indian revolutionaries supported the Britishers but Tilak and Besant considered this an opportunity to achieve independence from the British. Thus, they decided to organize a national alliance of leagues across India, specifically to demand Home Rule or self-government.

Hindu Mahasabha, politico- religious was formed by Madan Mohan Malviya in the year 1915 to protect the rights of the Hindu community in British India. The first All India Hindu Mahasabha Conference was organized at Haridwar in 1915. It became more aggressive after 1929 and started propagating Hindu Rashtra.

The Congress Working Committee passed a resolution in 1938 that prohibited members of the Indian National Congress from holding membership in communal organizations like the Hindu Mahasabha. This was an attempt to maintain a secular and unified stance against colonial rule.

During the period of 1942 to 1945, the Muslim League significantly expanded its mass base. This was facilitated by the absence of Congress leaders who were imprisoned following the Quit India Movement.