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All-India Muslim League

March 16, 2023

The All-India Muslim League (AIML) was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of British India, Lord Minto, with the goal of securing Muslim interests on the Indian subcontinent.[5]

The party arose out of the need for the political representation of Muslims in British India, especially during the Indian National Congress-sponsored massive Hindu opposition to the 1905 partition of Bengal. During the 1906 annual meeting of the All India Muslim Education Conference held in Israt Manzil Palace, Dhaka, the Nawab of Dhaka, Khwaja Salimullah, forwarded a proposal to create a political party which would protect the interests of Muslims in British India. Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi, a prominent Muslim leader from Lahore, suggested the political party be named the 'All-India Muslim League'. The motion was unanimously passed by the conference, leading to the official formation of the All-India Muslim League in Dhaka.[6] It remained an elitist organization until 1937, when the leadership began mobilising the Muslim masses, which turned the league into a popular organization.[7][8]

In the 1930s, the idea of a separate nation-state and influential philosopher Sir Muhammad Iqbal's vision of uniting the four provinces in North-West British India further supported the rationale of the two-nation theory. This aligned with the ideas proposed by Syed Ahmad Khan who, in 1888 at Meerut, said, "After this long preface I wish to explain what method my nation — nay, rather the whole people of this country — ought to pursue in political matters. I will treat in regular sequence of the political questions of India, in order that you may have full opportunity of giving your attention to them. The first of all is this — In whose hands shall the administration and the Empire of India rest? Now, suppose that all English, and the whole English army, were to leave India, taking with them all their cannon and their splendid weapons and everything, then who would be rulers of India? Is it possible that under these circumstances two nations — the Mahomedans and the Hindus — could sit on the same throne and remain equal in power? Most certainly not. It is necessary that one of them should conquer the other and thrust it down. To hope that both could remain equal is to desire the impossible and the inconceivable."[9] When the Congress party effectively protested against the United Kingdom unilaterally involving India in World War II without consulting the Indian people, the Muslim League went on to support the British war efforts. The Muslim League played a decisive role in the 1940s, becoming a driving force behind the division of India along religious lines and the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state in 1947.[10]

After the Partition of India and the establishment of Pakistan, the All-India Muslim League was formally disbanded in India. The League was officially succeeded by the Pakistan Muslim League, which eventually split into several political parties. Other groups diminished to a minor party, that too only in Kerala state of India. In Bangladesh, the Muslim League was revived in 1976, but it was reduced in size, rendering it insignificant in the political arena. In India, a separate independent entity called the Indian Union Muslim League was formed, which continues to have a presence in the Indian parliament to this day.

History

See also: Sessions of the All-India Muslim League

Foundation

See also: All India Muhammadan Educational Conference § The 1906 conference
 
The AIME Conference in 1906, held at the Ahsan Manzil palace of the Dhaka Nawab Family, laid the foundation of the Muslim League.

With the sincere efforts by the pioneers of the Congress to attract Muslims to their sessions the majority of the Islamic leadership, with exception of few scholars like Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Syed Ameer Ali, who focused more on Islamic education and scientific developments, rejected the notion that India's has two distinct communities to be represented separately Congress sessions.[11]

In 1886, Sir Syed founded the Muhammadan Educational Conference, but a self-imposed ban prevented it from discussing politics. Its original goal was to advocate for British education, especially science and literature, among India's Muslims. The conference, in addition to generating funds for Sir Syed's Aligarh Muslim University, motivated the Muslim upper class to propose an expansion of educational uplift elsewhere, known as the Aligarh Movement. In turn, this new awareness of Muslim needs helped stimulate a political consciousness among Muslim elites, For a few of them, many years after the death of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan the All-India Muslim League was formed in Dhaka, Bangladesh.[12]

The formation of a Muslim political party on the national level was seen as essential by 1901. The first stage of its formation was the meeting held at Lucknow in September 1906, with the participation of representatives from all over India. The decision for the re-consideration to form the all-Indian Muslim political party was taken and further proceedings were adjourned until the next meeting of the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference. The Simla Deputation reconsidered the issue in October 1906 and decided to frame the objectives of the party on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Educational Conference, which was scheduled to be held in Dhaka. Meanwhile, Nawab Salimullah Khan published a detailed scheme through which he suggested the party to be named All-India Muslim Confederacy.[citation needed]

Pursuant to the decisions taken earlier at the Lucknow meeting and later in Simla, the annual meeting of the All-India Muhammadan Educational Conference was held in Dhaka from 27 December until 30 December 1906.[13] Three thousand delegates attended,[5] headed by both Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk (the Secretary of the Muhammaden Educational Conference), in which they explained its objectives and stressed the unity of Muslims under the banner of an association.[13] It was formally proposed by Nawab Salimullah Khan and supported by Hakim Ajmal Khan, Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, Zafar Ali Khan, Syed Nabiullah, a barrister from Lucknow, and Syed Zahur Ahmad, an eminent lawyer, as well as several others.

Separate electorates

The Muslim League's insistence on separate electorates and reserved seats in the Imperial Council were granted in the Indian Councils Act after the League held protests in India and lobbied London.[14]

The draft proposals for the reforms communicated on 1 October 1908 provided Muslims with reserved seats in all councils, with nominations only being maintained in Punjab. The communication displayed how much the Government had accommodated Muslim demands[15] and showed an increase in Muslim representation in the Imperial and provincial legislatures.[16] But the Muslim League's demands were only fully met in UP and Madras. However, the Government did accept the idea of separate electorates. The idea had not been accepted by the Secretary of State, who proposed mixed electoral colleges, causing the Muslim League to agitate and the Muslim press to protest what they perceived to be a betrayal of the Viceroy's assurance to the Simla deputation.[17]

On 23 February Morley told the House of Lords that Muslims demanded separate representation and accepted them. This was the League's first victory. But the Indian Councils Bill did not fully satisfy the demands of the Muslim League.[18] It was based on the October 1908 communique in which Muslims were only given a few reserved seats. The Muslim League's London branch opposed the bill and in a debate obtained the support of several parliamentarians.[19] In 1909 the members of the Muslim League organised a Muslim protest.[20] The Reforms Committee of Minto's council believed that Muslims had a point and advised Minto to discuss with some Muslim leaders. The Government offered a few more seats to Muslims in compromise but would not agree to fully satisfy the League's demand.[21]

Minto believed that the Muslims had been given enough while Morley was still not certain because of the pressure Muslims could apply on the government. The Muslim League's central committee once again demanded separate electorates and more representation on 12 September 1909.[22] While Minto was opposed, Morley feared that the Bill would not pass parliament without the League's support and he once again discussed Muslim representation with the League leadership.[23] This was successful. The Aga Khan compromised so that Muslims would have two more reserved seats in the Imperial Council. The Muslim League hesitantly accepted the compromise.[24]

Early years

Sultan Muhammad Shah (Aga Khan III) was appointed the first honorary president of the Muslim League, though he did not attend the Dhaka inaugural session. There were also six vice-presidents, a secretary, and two joint secretaries initially appointed for a three-year term, proportionately from different provinces.[25] The League's constitution was framed in 1907, espoused in the "Green Book," written by Mohammad Ali Jauhar.[citation needed]

Aga Khan III shared Ahmad Khan's belief that Muslims should first build up their social capital through advanced education before engaging in politics, but would later boldly tell the British Raj that Muslims must be considered a separate nation within India. Even after he resigned as president of the AIML in 1912, he still exerted a major influence on its policies and agendas.[26] In 1913, Mohammed Ali Jinnah joined the Muslim league.[citation needed]

Intellectual support and a cadre of young activists emerged from Aligarh Muslim University. Historian Mushirul Hasan writes that in the early 20th century, this Muslim institution, designed to prepare students for service to the British Raj, exploded into political activity. Until 1939, the faculty and students supported an all-India nationalist movement. After 1939, however, sentiment shifted dramatically toward a Muslim separatist movement, as students and faculty mobilised behind Jinnah and the Muslim League.[27]

Communalism grows

Politically, there was a degree of unity between Muslim and Hindu leaders after World War I, as typified by the Khilafat Movement. Relationships cooled sharply after that campaign ended in 1922. Communalism grew rapidly, forcing the two groups apart.[28] Major riots broke out in numerous cities, including 91 between 1923 and 1927 in Uttar Pradesh alone.[29] At the leadership level, the proportion of Muslims among delegates to the Congress party fell sharply, from 11% in 1921 to under 4% in 1923.[30]

Muhammad Ali Jinnah became disillusioned with politics after the failure of his attempt to form a Hindu-Muslim alliance, and he spent most of the 1920s in Britain[citation needed]. The leadership of the League was taken over by Sir Muhammad Iqbal, who in 1930 first put forward the demand for a separate Muslim state in India. The "Two-Nation Theory", the belief that Hindus and Muslims were two different nations who could not live in one country, gained popularity among Muslims. The two-state solution was rejected by the Congress leaders, who favoured a united India based on composite national identity. Congress at all times rejected "communalism" — that is, basing politics on religious identity.[31] Iqbal's policy of uniting the North-West Frontier Province, Baluchistan, Punjab, and Sindh into a new Muslim majority state became part of the League's political platform.[32]

The League rejected the Committee report (the Nehru Report), arguing that it gave too little representation (only one quarter) to Muslims, established Devanagari as the official writing system of the colony, and demanded that India turn into a de facto unitary state, with residuary powers resting at the centre – the League had demanded at least one-third representation in the legislature and sizeable autonomy for the Muslim provinces. Jinnah reported a "parting of the ways" after his requests for minor amendments to the proposal were denied outright, and relations between the Congress and the League began to sour.[33]

Conception of Pakistan

Main articles: Pakistan Movement and Allahabad Address

On 29 December 1930, Sir Muhammad Iqbal delivered his presidential address to the All-India Muslim League annual session. He said:[34]

I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province [modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa], Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.

Sir Muhammad Iqbal did not use the word "Pakistan" in his address. Some scholars argued that "Iqbal never pleaded for any kind of partition of the country. Rather he was an ardent proponent of a 'true' federal setup for India..., and wanted a consolidated Muslim majority within the Indian Federation".[35]

Another Indian historian, Tara Chand, also held that Iqbal was not thinking in terms of partition of India, but in terms of a federation of autonomous states within India.[36] Dr. Safdar Mehmood also asserted in a series of articles that in the Allahabad address, Iqbal proposed a Muslim majority province within an Indian federation and not an independent state outside an Indian Federation.[37]

On 28 January 1933, Choudhary Rahmat Ali, founder of the Pakistan National Movement, voiced his ideas in the pamphlet entitled "Now or Never".[38] In a subsequent book, he discussed the etymology in further detail: “'Pakistan' is both a Persian and an Urdu word. It is composed of letters taken from the names of all our homelands ... That is, Panjab, Afghania (North-West Frontier Province), Kashmir, Iran, Sindh (including Kachch and Kathiawar), Tukharistan, Afghanistan, and Balochistan."[39]

The British and the Indian Press vehemently criticised these two different schemes and created confusion about the authorship of the word "Pakistan" to such an extent that even Jawaharlal Nehru had to write:[40]

Iqbal was one of the early advocates of Pakistan and yet he appears to have realised its inherent danger and absurdity. Edward Thompson has written that in the course of a conversation, Iqbal told him that he had advocated Pakistan because of his position as President of Muslim League session, but he felt sure that it would be injurious to India as a whole and to Muslims especially.

Campaign for Pakistan

Main article: Pakistan Movement
 
Muslim League Working Committee at the Lahore session
 
Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman seconding the Resolution with Jinnah and Liaquat presiding the session.

Until 1937, the Muslim League had remained an organisation of elite Indian Muslims. The Muslim League leadership then began mass mobilisation and it then became a popular party with the Muslim masses in the 1940s, especially after the Lahore Resolution.[7][41] Under Jinnah's leadership, its membership grew to over two million and became more religious and even separatist in its outlook.[42][43]

The Muslim League's earliest base was the United Provinces,[44] where they successfully mobilised the religious community in the late 1930s. Jinnah worked closely with local politicians, however, there was a lack of uniform political voice by the League during the 1938–1939 Madhe Sahaba riots in Lucknow.[45] From 1937 onwards, the Muslim League and Jinnah attracted large crowds throughout India in its processions and strikes.[46]

At a League conference in Lahore in 1940, Jinnah said:

Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies, social customs, literature... It is quite clear that Hindus and Mussalmans derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes and different episodes ... To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built up for the government of such a state.[47]

In Lahore, the Muslim League formally recommitted itself to creating an independent Muslim state which would include Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan, the North West Frontier Province, and Bengal, and which would be "wholly autonomous and sovereign". The Lahore Resolution, moved by the sitting Chief Minister of Bengal A. K. Fazlul Huq,[48] was adopted on 23 March 1940, and its principles formed the foundation for Pakistan's first constitution. In the Indian provincial elections of 1946, the Muslim League won 425 out of 476 seats reserved for Muslims[49] (and about 89.2% of Muslim votes) on a policy of creating the independent state of Pakistan, and with an implied threat of secession if this was not granted. Congress, led by Gandhi and Nehru, remained adamantly opposed to dividing India.[citation needed]

In opposition to the Lahore Resolution, the All India Azad Muslim Conference gathered in Delhi in April 1940 to voice its support for a united India.[50] Its members included several Islamic organisations in India, as well as 1400 nationalist Muslim delegates;[51][52] the "attendance at the Nationalist meeting was about five times than the attendance at the League meeting."[53] The All-India Muslim League worked to try to silence those Muslims who stood against the partition of India, often using "intimidation and coercion".[53][52] For example, Deobandi scholar Maulana Syed Husain Ahmad Madani traveled across British India, spreading the idea he wrote about in his book, Composite Nationalism and Islam, which stood for Hindu-Muslim unity and opposed the concept of a partition of India;[54][55] while he was doing this, members of the pro-separatist Muslim League attacked Madani and disturbed his rallies.[54] The murder of the All India Azad Muslim Conference leader Allah Bakhsh Soomro in 1943 further solidified the All-India Muslim League to demand the creation of Pakistan.[53]

Role in communal violence

From the late 1930's and onwards in the British Indian province of Sind, communal tensions between Muslims and Hindus rose to enormous degree. These communal feelings were instrumental in the popularity of the All India Muslim League throughout the province. Even though the Muslims made up about 70% of the population of Sindh, they had a bare majority (34 of 60 seats) in the Assembly. Furthermore, before the British took over, the Sindhi Hindus didn't own any land but within a century of British rule, their landownership grew by 40% while a further 20% was believed to have been mortgaged to them. The inter-faith conflict was at large connected to the peculiar socio economic order in which the Hindus in Sind dominated with their high socioeconomic status, while the Muslims remained marginalized.[56]

The historian Ayesha Jalal describes the actions that the pro-separatist Muslim League used in order to further spread communal division and undermine the elected government of Allah Bakhsh Soomro, which stood for a united India:[57]

Even before the 'Pakistan' demand was articulated, the dispute over the Sukkur Manzilgah had been fabricated by provincial Leaguers to unsettle Allah Bakhsh Soomro's ministry which was dependent on support from the Congress and Independent Party. Intended as a way station for Mughal troops on the move, the Manzilgah included a small mosque which had been subsequently abandoned. On a small island in the near distance was the temple of Saad Bela, sacred space for the large number of Hindus settled on the banks of the Indus at Sukkur. The symbolic convergence of the identity and sovereignty over a forgotten mosque provided ammunition for those seeking office at the provincial level. Making an issue out of a non-issue, the Sind Muslim League in early June 1939 formally reclaimed the mosque. Once its deadline of 1 October 1939 for the restoration of the mosque to Muslims had passed, the League started an agitation.[57]

In the few years before the partition, the Muslim League was accused of "monetarily subsidizing" mobs that engaged in communal violence against Hindus and Sikhs in the areas of Multan, Rawalpindi, Campbellpur, Jhelum and Sargodha, as well as in the Hazara District.[58][59][60] The Muslim League led mobs reportedly paid assassins money for every Hindu and Sikh killed.[58] As such, leaders of the Muslim League, including Muhammad Ali Jinnah, issued no condemnation of the violence against Hindus and Sikhs in Punjab.[61]

Impact on the future courses of the Subcontinent

Pakistan

Main articles: Politics in Pakistan and Pakistan Muslim League

After the partition of the British Indian Empire, the Muslim League played a major role in giving birth to modern conservatism in Pakistan and the introduction of the democratic process in the country.[62]

The Pakistani incarnation was originally led by the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and later by Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan, but suffered from ill-fate following the military intervention in 1958. One of its factions[63] remained supportive of President Ayub Khan until 1962, when all factions decided to reform into the Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin, and to support Fatima Jinnah in the presidential elections in 1965. Furthermore, it was the only party to have received votes from both East and West Pakistan during the elections held in 1970. During the successive periods of Pakistan, the Pakistan Muslim League went on to be one of the ruling parties holding alternating power within the nation.[citation needed]

India

Main article: Indian Union Muslim League

After the partition of India in 1947, the All-India Muslim League was disbanded. It was succeeded by Indian Union Muslim League in the new India.[64]

Indian Union Muslim League contests Indian General Elections under the Indian Constitution.[64] The party has always had a constant, if small presence, in the Indian Parliament.[64] The party has had two members in every Lower House from the third to the 16th House, with the exception of the Second, in which it had no members, and the fourth, in which it had three members. The party had a single member in the 14th Lower House. The party currently has four members in Parliament.[64] The party is currently a part of the United Progressive Alliance in national level.[64]

Indian Union Muslim League is recognized by the Election Commission of India as a State Party in Kerala.The party is a major member of the opposition United Democratic Front, the Indian National Congress-lead pre-poll state-level alliance in Kerala.[64] Whenever the United Democratic Front rules in Kerala, the party leaders are chosen as important Cabinet Ministers.[64]

Bangladesh

Main article: Awami League

The Muslim League formed its government in East Bengal immediately after the partition of Bengal, with Khawaja Nazimuddin becoming the first Chief Minister.[citation needed]

Problems in East Pakistan for the Muslim League began to rise following the issue of the Constitution of Pakistan. Furthermore, the Bengali Language Movement proved to be the last event that led the Muslim League to lose its mandate in East Bengal. The Muslim League's national conservatism program also faced several setbacks and resistance from the Communist Party of Pakistan. In an interview given to print media, Nurul Amin stated that the communists had played an integral and major role in staging the massive protests, mass demonstrations, and strikes for the Bengali Language Movement.[65]

All over the country, the political parties had favoured the general elections in Pakistan with the exception of the Muslim League.[66] In 1954, legislative elections were to be held for the Parliament.[66] Unlike in West Punjab, not all of the Hindu population migrated to India, instead a large number stayed in the state.[66] The influence of the Communist Party deepened, and its goal of attaining power was finally realised during the elections. The United Front, the Communist Party, and the Awami League returned to power, inflicting a severe defeat to the Muslim League.[66] Out of 309, the Muslim League only won 10 seats, whereas the Communist Party got 4 seats of the ten contested. The communists working with other parties had secured 22 additional seats, totalling 26. The right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami had completely failed in the elections.[66]

In 1955, the United Front named Abu Hussain Sarkar as the Chief Minister of the State and he ruled the state in two non-consecutive terms until 1958, when martial law was imposed.[66] The Muslim League remained as a minor party in East Pakistan but participated with full rigour during the Pakistan general elections in 1970. It won 10 seats from East Pakistan and 7 seats from other parts of Pakistan. After the independence of Bangladesh, the Muslim League was revived in 1976 but its size was reduced, rendering it insignificant in the political arena.[citation needed]

United Kingdom

During the 1940s, the Muslim League had a United Kingdom chapter active in the British politics. After the establishment of Pakistan, the Pakistani community's leaders took over the UK branch, choosing Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola as president of the party to continue to serve its purpose in the United Kingdom.[67] At present, the Muslim League's UK branch is led by the PML-N, with Zubair Gull as its president.[67]

Historical versions

Historically, Pakistan Muslim League can also refer to any of the following political parties in Pakistan:[68]

See also

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  42. ^ Sebestyen, Victor (2014). 1946: The Making of the Modern World. Pan Macmillan UK. pp. 247–. ISBN 978-1-74353-456-4. That, too, had begun life as a cosy club of upper-class Indians, seeking a limited range of extra privileges for Indian Muslims. However, under the leadership of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the League grew rapidly to a membership of more than two million and its message became increasingly religious and separatist in tone.
  43. ^ Khan, Yasmin (2017) [First published in 2007]. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (New ed.). Yale University Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-0-300-23364-3. Although it was founded in 1909 the League had only caught on among South Asian Muslims during the Second World War. The party had expanded astonishingly rapidly and was claiming over two million members by the early 1940s, an unimaginable result for what had been previously thought of as just one of the numerous pressure groups and small but insignificant parties.
  44. ^ Talbot, Ian (1982). "The growth of the Muslim League in the Punjab, 1937–1946". Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 20 (1): 5–24. doi:10.1080/14662048208447395. Despite their different viewpoints all these theories have tended either to concentrate on the All-India struggle between the Muslim League and the Congress in the pre-partition period, or to turn their interest to the Muslim cultural heartland of the UP where the League gained its earliest foothold and where the demand for Pakistan was strongest.
  45. ^ Dhulipala, Venkat (2010). "Rallying the Qaum: The Muslim League in the United Provinces, 1937–1939". Modern Asian Studies. 44 (3): 603–640. doi:10.1017/s0026749x09004016. JSTOR 40664926. S2CID 144798260.
  46. ^ Talbot, Ian (1993). "The role of the crowd in the Muslim League struggle for Pakistan". The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 21 (2): 307–333. doi:10.1080/03086539308582893. Huge crowds attended Muslim League meetings and flocked to glimpse Jinnah as he journeyed about India from 1937 onwards. They also joined in processions, strikes, and riots.
  47. ^ Hay, Stephen (1988) [First published 1958]. Sources of Indian Tradition. Vol. 2 (Second ed.). Columbia University Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-231-06650-1.
  48. ^ Lyon, Peter (2008). Conflict between India and Pakistan: an encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 108. ISBN 978-1-57607-712-2. The Lahore Resolution ... was moved by a Bengali, Fazlul Huq (Haq).
  49. ^ Ayoob, Mohammed (2 November 2017). . Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 6 July 2020.
  50. ^ Qasmi, Ali Usman; Robb, Megan Eaton (2017). Muslims against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan. Cambridge University Press. p. 2. ISBN 9781108621236.
  51. ^ Haq, Mushir U. (1970). Muslim politics in modern India, 1857-1947. Meenakshi Prakashan. p. 114. OCLC 136880. This was also reflected in one of the resolutions of the Azad Muslim Conference, an organization which attempted to be representative of all the various nationalist Muslim parties and groups in India.
  52. ^ a b Ahmed, Ishtiaq (27 May 2016). "The dissenters". The Friday Times. However, the book is a tribute to the role of one Muslim leader who steadfastly opposed the Partition of India: the Sindhi leader Allah Bakhsh Soomro. Allah Bakhsh belonged to a landed family. He founded the Sindh People's Party in 1934, which later came to be known as 'Ittehad' or 'Unity Party'. ... Allah Bakhsh was totally opposed to the Muslim League's demand for the creation of Pakistan through a division of India on a religious basis. Consequently, he established the Azad Muslim Conference. In its Delhi session held during April 27–30, 1940 some 1400 delegates took part. They belonged mainly to the lower castes and working class. The famous scholar of Indian Islam, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, feels that the delegates represented a 'majority of India's Muslims'. Among those who attended the conference were representatives of many Islamic theologians and women also took part in the deliberations ... Shamsul Islam argues that the All-India Muslim League at times used intimidation and coercion to silence any opposition among Muslims to its demand for Partition. He calls such tactics of the Muslim League as a 'Reign of Terror'. He gives examples from all over India including the NWFP where the Khudai Khidmatgars remain opposed to the Partition of India.
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  54. ^ a b Kumar, Pramod (1992). Towards Understanding Communalism. Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development. p. 22. ISBN 9788185835174. His consciousness was not transformed into communal consciousness, so much so that the Muslim League 'goondas' attacked him several times. For instance, in 1945, Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madani was touring India to plead for composite nationalism and for opposing the idea of partition. Near Moradabad railway station Muslim League 'goondas' threw Keechar (marshy water) on him.
  55. ^ Engineer, Asgharali (1987). Ethnic conflict in south Asia. Ajanta Publications. p. 28. At one time, in 1945, Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madani was touring throughout India to plead for composite nationalism and for opposing the idea of partition: once he was coming out of the railway station near Moradabad, and Muslim League goondas threw keechar (marshy water) on him.
  56. ^ Siddiqi, Farhan Hanif (4 May 2012). The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-33697-3.
  57. ^ a b Jalal, Ayesha (2002). Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850. Routledge. p. 415. ISBN 9781134599370.
  58. ^ a b Abid, Abdul Majeed (29 December 2014). "The forgotten massacre". The Nation. On the same dates, Muslim League-led mobs fell with determination and full preparations on the helpless Hindus and Sikhs scattered in the villages of Multan, Rawalpindi, Campbellpur, Jhelum and Sargodha. The murderous mobs were well supplied with arms, such as daggers, swords, spears and fire-arms. (A former civil servant mentioned in his autobiography that weapon supplies had been sent from NWFP and money was supplied by Delhi-based politicians.) They had bands of stabbers and their auxiliaries, who covered the assailant, ambushed the victim and if necessary disposed of his body. These bands were subsidized monetarily by the Muslim League, and cash payments were made to individual assassins based on the numbers of Hindus and Sikhs killed. There were also regular patrolling parties in jeeps which went about sniping and picking off any stray Hindu or Sikh. ... Thousands of non-combatants including women and children were killed or injured by mobs, supported by the All India Muslim League.
  59. ^ Chitkara, M. G. (1996). Mohajir's Pakistan. APH Publishing. ISBN 9788170247463. When the idea of Pakistan was not accepted in the Northern States of India, the Muslim League sent out its goons to drive the Hindus out of Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi and appropriate their property.
  60. ^ Bali, Amar Nath (1949). Now it can be told. Akashvani Prakashan Publishers. p. 19. The pamphlet 'Rape of Rawalpindi' gives gruesome details of what was done to the minorities in the Rawalpindi Division. No such details have been published for other towns but the pattern of barbarities committed by the Muslim League goondas was the same everywhere.
  61. ^ Ranjan, Amit (2018). Partition of India: Postcolonial Legacies. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780429750526. In the evening of 6 March Muslim mobs numbering in the thousands headed towards Sikh villages in Rawalpindi, Attock and Jhelum districts. ... According to British sources, some two thousand people were killed in the carnage in three rural district: almost all non-Muslims. The Sikhs claimed seven thousand dead. Government reports showed that Muslim ex-service persons had taken part in the planned attacks. The Muslim League leaders, Jinnah and others did not issue any condemenation of these atrocities.
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Further reading

  • Cohen, Stephen Philip (2004). The Idea of Pakistan. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 978-0-8157-1503-0.
  • Graham, George Farquhar Irving (1974). The Life and Work of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. Karachi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-636069-0.
  • Malik, Iftikar H. (2008). The History of Pakistan. The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-34137-3.
  • Moore, R. J. (1983). "Jinnah and the Pakistan Demand". Modern Asian Studies. 17 (4): 529–561. doi:10.1017/s0026749x00011069. JSTOR 312235. S2CID 144125491.
  • al Mujahid, Shairf (January–June 2007). "Reconstructing the Saga of the All India Muslim League (1906–47)". Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society. 55 (1/2): 15–26.

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The All India Muslim League AIML was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of British India Lord Minto with the goal of securing Muslim interests on the Indian subcontinent 5 All India Muslim LeaguePresiding Leader s Muhammad Ali JinnahAga Khan IIIA K Fazlul HuqNawab Waqar ul Mulk KambohHuseyn Shaheed SuhrawardySir Feroz Khan NoonKhwaja NazimuddinLiaquat Ali KhanKhaliq uz ZamanMohammad Ali BograShabbir Ahmad UsmaniAbul Mansur AhmedFounderKhwaja SalimullahFounded30 December 1906 1906 12 30 at Dacca British India now Dhaka Bangladesh Dissolved15 December 1947 1 Succeeded byPakistan Muslim LeagueHeadquartersLucknowNewspaperDawnStudent wingAIMSFParamilitary wingMuslim National Guard 2 IdeologyPakistani nationalismMuslim NationalismIslamic modernism 3 ConservativismTwo nation theorySeparatism 4 Political positionRight wingReligionIslamInternational affiliationAll India Muslim League London Chapter Election symbolCrescent and StarParty flagThe party arose out of the need for the political representation of Muslims in British India especially during the Indian National Congress sponsored massive Hindu opposition to the 1905 partition of Bengal During the 1906 annual meeting of the All India Muslim Education Conference held in Israt Manzil Palace Dhaka the Nawab of Dhaka Khwaja Salimullah forwarded a proposal to create a political party which would protect the interests of Muslims in British India Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi a prominent Muslim leader from Lahore suggested the political party be named the All India Muslim League The motion was unanimously passed by the conference leading to the official formation of the All India Muslim League in Dhaka 6 It remained an elitist organization until 1937 when the leadership began mobilising the Muslim masses which turned the league into a popular organization 7 8 In the 1930s the idea of a separate nation state and influential philosopher Sir Muhammad Iqbal s vision of uniting the four provinces in North West British India further supported the rationale of the two nation theory This aligned with the ideas proposed by Syed Ahmad Khan who in 1888 at Meerut said After this long preface I wish to explain what method my nation nay rather the whole people of this country ought to pursue in political matters I will treat in regular sequence of the political questions of India in order that you may have full opportunity of giving your attention to them The first of all is this In whose hands shall the administration and the Empire of India rest Now suppose that all English and the whole English army were to leave India taking with them all their cannon and their splendid weapons and everything then who would be rulers of India Is it possible that under these circumstances two nations the Mahomedans and the Hindus could sit on the same throne and remain equal in power Most certainly not It is necessary that one of them should conquer the other and thrust it down To hope that both could remain equal is to desire the impossible and the inconceivable 9 When the Congress party effectively protested against the United Kingdom unilaterally involving India in World War II without consulting the Indian people the Muslim League went on to support the British war efforts The Muslim League played a decisive role in the 1940s becoming a driving force behind the division of India along religious lines and the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state in 1947 10 After the Partition of India and the establishment of Pakistan the All India Muslim League was formally disbanded in India The League was officially succeeded by the Pakistan Muslim League which eventually split into several political parties Other groups diminished to a minor party that too only in Kerala state of India In Bangladesh the Muslim League was revived in 1976 but it was reduced in size rendering it insignificant in the political arena In India a separate independent entity called the Indian Union Muslim League was formed which continues to have a presence in the Indian parliament to this day Contents 1 History 1 1 Foundation 1 2 Separate electorates 1 3 Early years 1 4 Communalism grows 1 5 Conception of Pakistan 1 6 Campaign for Pakistan 2 Role in communal violence 3 Impact on the future courses of the Subcontinent 3 1 Pakistan 3 2 India 3 3 Bangladesh 3 4 United Kingdom 4 Historical versions 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksHistory EditSee also Sessions of the All India Muslim League Foundation Edit See also All India Muhammadan Educational Conference The 1906 conference The AIME Conference in 1906 held at the Ahsan Manzil palace of the Dhaka Nawab Family laid the foundation of the Muslim League With the sincere efforts by the pioneers of the Congress to attract Muslims to their sessions the majority of the Islamic leadership with exception of few scholars like Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Syed Ameer Ali who focused more on Islamic education and scientific developments rejected the notion that India s has two distinct communities to be represented separately Congress sessions 11 In 1886 Sir Syed founded the Muhammadan Educational Conference but a self imposed ban prevented it from discussing politics Its original goal was to advocate for British education especially science and literature among India s Muslims The conference in addition to generating funds for Sir Syed s Aligarh Muslim University motivated the Muslim upper class to propose an expansion of educational uplift elsewhere known as the Aligarh Movement In turn this new awareness of Muslim needs helped stimulate a political consciousness among Muslim elites For a few of them many years after the death of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan the All India Muslim League was formed in Dhaka Bangladesh 12 The formation of a Muslim political party on the national level was seen as essential by 1901 The first stage of its formation was the meeting held at Lucknow in September 1906 with the participation of representatives from all over India The decision for the re consideration to form the all Indian Muslim political party was taken and further proceedings were adjourned until the next meeting of the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference The Simla Deputation reconsidered the issue in October 1906 and decided to frame the objectives of the party on the occasion of the annual meeting of the Educational Conference which was scheduled to be held in Dhaka Meanwhile Nawab Salimullah Khan published a detailed scheme through which he suggested the party to be named All India Muslim Confederacy citation needed Pursuant to the decisions taken earlier at the Lucknow meeting and later in Simla the annual meeting of the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference was held in Dhaka from 27 December until 30 December 1906 13 Three thousand delegates attended 5 headed by both Nawab Waqar ul Mulk Kamboh and Nawab Mohsin ul Mulk the Secretary of the Muhammaden Educational Conference in which they explained its objectives and stressed the unity of Muslims under the banner of an association 13 It was formally proposed by Nawab Salimullah Khan and supported by Hakim Ajmal Khan Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar Zafar Ali Khan Syed Nabiullah a barrister from Lucknow and Syed Zahur Ahmad an eminent lawyer as well as several others Separate electorates Edit The Muslim League s insistence on separate electorates and reserved seats in the Imperial Council were granted in the Indian Councils Act after the League held protests in India and lobbied London 14 The draft proposals for the reforms communicated on 1 October 1908 provided Muslims with reserved seats in all councils with nominations only being maintained in Punjab The communication displayed how much the Government had accommodated Muslim demands 15 and showed an increase in Muslim representation in the Imperial and provincial legislatures 16 But the Muslim League s demands were only fully met in UP and Madras However the Government did accept the idea of separate electorates The idea had not been accepted by the Secretary of State who proposed mixed electoral colleges causing the Muslim League to agitate and the Muslim press to protest what they perceived to be a betrayal of the Viceroy s assurance to the Simla deputation 17 On 23 February Morley told the House of Lords that Muslims demanded separate representation and accepted them This was the League s first victory But the Indian Councils Bill did not fully satisfy the demands of the Muslim League 18 It was based on the October 1908 communique in which Muslims were only given a few reserved seats The Muslim League s London branch opposed the bill and in a debate obtained the support of several parliamentarians 19 In 1909 the members of the Muslim League organised a Muslim protest 20 The Reforms Committee of Minto s council believed that Muslims had a point and advised Minto to discuss with some Muslim leaders The Government offered a few more seats to Muslims in compromise but would not agree to fully satisfy the League s demand 21 Minto believed that the Muslims had been given enough while Morley was still not certain because of the pressure Muslims could apply on the government The Muslim League s central committee once again demanded separate electorates and more representation on 12 September 1909 22 While Minto was opposed Morley feared that the Bill would not pass parliament without the League s support and he once again discussed Muslim representation with the League leadership 23 This was successful The Aga Khan compromised so that Muslims would have two more reserved seats in the Imperial Council The Muslim League hesitantly accepted the compromise 24 Early years Edit Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III was appointed the first honorary president of the Muslim League though he did not attend the Dhaka inaugural session There were also six vice presidents a secretary and two joint secretaries initially appointed for a three year term proportionately from different provinces 25 The League s constitution was framed in 1907 espoused in the Green Book written by Mohammad Ali Jauhar citation needed Aga Khan III shared Ahmad Khan s belief that Muslims should first build up their social capital through advanced education before engaging in politics but would later boldly tell the British Raj that Muslims must be considered a separate nation within India Even after he resigned as president of the AIML in 1912 he still exerted a major influence on its policies and agendas 26 In 1913 Mohammed Ali Jinnah joined the Muslim league citation needed Intellectual support and a cadre of young activists emerged from Aligarh Muslim University Historian Mushirul Hasan writes that in the early 20th century this Muslim institution designed to prepare students for service to the British Raj exploded into political activity Until 1939 the faculty and students supported an all India nationalist movement After 1939 however sentiment shifted dramatically toward a Muslim separatist movement as students and faculty mobilised behind Jinnah and the Muslim League 27 Communalism grows Edit Politically there was a degree of unity between Muslim and Hindu leaders after World War I as typified by the Khilafat Movement Relationships cooled sharply after that campaign ended in 1922 Communalism grew rapidly forcing the two groups apart 28 Major riots broke out in numerous cities including 91 between 1923 and 1927 in Uttar Pradesh alone 29 At the leadership level the proportion of Muslims among delegates to the Congress party fell sharply from 11 in 1921 to under 4 in 1923 30 Muhammad Ali Jinnah became disillusioned with politics after the failure of his attempt to form a Hindu Muslim alliance and he spent most of the 1920s in Britain citation needed The leadership of the League was taken over by Sir Muhammad Iqbal who in 1930 first put forward the demand for a separate Muslim state in India The Two Nation Theory the belief that Hindus and Muslims were two different nations who could not live in one country gained popularity among Muslims The two state solution was rejected by the Congress leaders who favoured a united India based on composite national identity Congress at all times rejected communalism that is basing politics on religious identity 31 Iqbal s policy of uniting the North West Frontier Province Baluchistan Punjab and Sindh into a new Muslim majority state became part of the League s political platform 32 The League rejected the Committee report the Nehru Report arguing that it gave too little representation only one quarter to Muslims established Devanagari as the official writing system of the colony and demanded that India turn into a de facto unitary state with residuary powers resting at the centre the League had demanded at least one third representation in the legislature and sizeable autonomy for the Muslim provinces Jinnah reported a parting of the ways after his requests for minor amendments to the proposal were denied outright and relations between the Congress and the League began to sour 33 Conception of Pakistan Edit Main articles Pakistan Movement and Allahabad Address On 29 December 1930 Sir Muhammad Iqbal delivered his presidential address to the All India Muslim League annual session He said 34 I would like to see the Punjab North West Frontier Province modern day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State Self government within the British Empire or without the British Empire the formation of a consolidated North West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims at least of North West India Sir Muhammad Iqbal did not use the word Pakistan in his address Some scholars argued that Iqbal never pleaded for any kind of partition of the country Rather he was an ardent proponent of a true federal setup for India and wanted a consolidated Muslim majority within the Indian Federation 35 Another Indian historian Tara Chand also held that Iqbal was not thinking in terms of partition of India but in terms of a federation of autonomous states within India 36 Dr Safdar Mehmood also asserted in a series of articles that in the Allahabad address Iqbal proposed a Muslim majority province within an Indian federation and not an independent state outside an Indian Federation 37 On 28 January 1933 Choudhary Rahmat Ali founder of the Pakistan National Movement voiced his ideas in the pamphlet entitled Now or Never 38 In a subsequent book he discussed the etymology in further detail Pakistan is both a Persian and an Urdu word It is composed of letters taken from the names of all our homelands That is Panjab Afghania North West Frontier Province Kashmir Iran Sindh including Kachch and Kathiawar Tukharistan Afghanistan and Balochistan 39 The British and the Indian Press vehemently criticised these two different schemes and created confusion about the authorship of the word Pakistan to such an extent that even Jawaharlal Nehru had to write 40 Iqbal was one of the early advocates of Pakistan and yet he appears to have realised its inherent danger and absurdity Edward Thompson has written that in the course of a conversation Iqbal told him that he had advocated Pakistan because of his position as President of Muslim League session but he felt sure that it would be injurious to India as a whole and to Muslims especially Campaign for Pakistan Edit Main article Pakistan Movement Muslim League Working Committee at the Lahore session Chaudhry Khaliquzzaman seconding the Resolution with Jinnah and Liaquat presiding the session Until 1937 the Muslim League had remained an organisation of elite Indian Muslims The Muslim League leadership then began mass mobilisation and it then became a popular party with the Muslim masses in the 1940s especially after the Lahore Resolution 7 41 Under Jinnah s leadership its membership grew to over two million and became more religious and even separatist in its outlook 42 43 The Muslim League s earliest base was the United Provinces 44 where they successfully mobilised the religious community in the late 1930s Jinnah worked closely with local politicians however there was a lack of uniform political voice by the League during the 1938 1939 Madhe Sahaba riots in Lucknow 45 From 1937 onwards the Muslim League and Jinnah attracted large crowds throughout India in its processions and strikes 46 At a League conference in Lahore in 1940 Jinnah said Hindus and Muslims belong to two different religious philosophies social customs literature It is quite clear that Hindus and Mussalmans derive their inspiration from different sources of history They have different epics different heroes and different episodes To yoke together two such nations under a single state one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built up for the government of such a state 47 In Lahore the Muslim League formally recommitted itself to creating an independent Muslim state which would include Sindh Punjab Baluchistan the North West Frontier Province and Bengal and which would be wholly autonomous and sovereign The Lahore Resolution moved by the sitting Chief Minister of Bengal A K Fazlul Huq 48 was adopted on 23 March 1940 and its principles formed the foundation for Pakistan s first constitution In the Indian provincial elections of 1946 the Muslim League won 425 out of 476 seats reserved for Muslims 49 and about 89 2 of Muslim votes on a policy of creating the independent state of Pakistan and with an implied threat of secession if this was not granted Congress led by Gandhi and Nehru remained adamantly opposed to dividing India citation needed In opposition to the Lahore Resolution the All India Azad Muslim Conference gathered in Delhi in April 1940 to voice its support for a united India 50 Its members included several Islamic organisations in India as well as 1400 nationalist Muslim delegates 51 52 the attendance at the Nationalist meeting was about five times than the attendance at the League meeting 53 The All India Muslim League worked to try to silence those Muslims who stood against the partition of India often using intimidation and coercion 53 52 For example Deobandi scholar Maulana Syed Husain Ahmad Madani traveled across British India spreading the idea he wrote about in his book Composite Nationalism and Islam which stood for Hindu Muslim unity and opposed the concept of a partition of India 54 55 while he was doing this members of the pro separatist Muslim League attacked Madani and disturbed his rallies 54 The murder of the All India Azad Muslim Conference leader Allah Bakhsh Soomro in 1943 further solidified the All India Muslim League to demand the creation of Pakistan 53 Role in communal violence EditFrom the late 1930 s and onwards in the British Indian province of Sind communal tensions between Muslims and Hindus rose to enormous degree These communal feelings were instrumental in the popularity of the All India Muslim League throughout the province Even though the Muslims made up about 70 of the population of Sindh they had a bare majority 34 of 60 seats in the Assembly Furthermore before the British took over the Sindhi Hindus didn t own any land but within a century of British rule their landownership grew by 40 while a further 20 was believed to have been mortgaged to them The inter faith conflict was at large connected to the peculiar socio economic order in which the Hindus in Sind dominated with their high socioeconomic status while the Muslims remained marginalized 56 The historian Ayesha Jalal describes the actions that the pro separatist Muslim League used in order to further spread communal division and undermine the elected government of Allah Bakhsh Soomro which stood for a united India 57 Even before the Pakistan demand was articulated the dispute over the Sukkur Manzilgah had been fabricated by provincial Leaguers to unsettle Allah Bakhsh Soomro s ministry which was dependent on support from the Congress and Independent Party Intended as a way station for Mughal troops on the move the Manzilgah included a small mosque which had been subsequently abandoned On a small island in the near distance was the temple of Saad Bela sacred space for the large number of Hindus settled on the banks of the Indus at Sukkur The symbolic convergence of the identity and sovereignty over a forgotten mosque provided ammunition for those seeking office at the provincial level Making an issue out of a non issue the Sind Muslim League in early June 1939 formally reclaimed the mosque Once its deadline of 1 October 1939 for the restoration of the mosque to Muslims had passed the League started an agitation 57 In the few years before the partition the Muslim League was accused of monetarily subsidizing mobs that engaged in communal violence against Hindus and Sikhs in the areas of Multan Rawalpindi Campbellpur Jhelum and Sargodha as well as in the Hazara District 58 59 60 The Muslim League led mobs reportedly paid assassins money for every Hindu and Sikh killed 58 As such leaders of the Muslim League including Muhammad Ali Jinnah issued no condemnation of the violence against Hindus and Sikhs in Punjab 61 Impact on the future courses of the Subcontinent EditPakistan Edit Main articles Politics in Pakistan and Pakistan Muslim League After the partition of the British Indian Empire the Muslim League played a major role in giving birth to modern conservatism in Pakistan and the introduction of the democratic process in the country 62 The Pakistani incarnation was originally led by the founder of Pakistan Muhammad Ali Jinnah and later by Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan but suffered from ill fate following the military intervention in 1958 One of its factions 63 remained supportive of President Ayub Khan until 1962 when all factions decided to reform into the Pakistan Muslim League led by Nurul Amin and to support Fatima Jinnah in the presidential elections in 1965 Furthermore it was the only party to have received votes from both East and West Pakistan during the elections held in 1970 During the successive periods of Pakistan the Pakistan Muslim League went on to be one of the ruling parties holding alternating power within the nation citation needed India Edit Main article Indian Union Muslim League After the partition of India in 1947 the All India Muslim League was disbanded It was succeeded by Indian Union Muslim League in the new India 64 Indian Union Muslim League contests Indian General Elections under the Indian Constitution 64 The party has always had a constant if small presence in the Indian Parliament 64 The party has had two members in every Lower House from the third to the 16th House with the exception of the Second in which it had no members and the fourth in which it had three members The party had a single member in the 14th Lower House The party currently has four members in Parliament 64 The party is currently a part of the United Progressive Alliance in national level 64 Indian Union Muslim League is recognized by the Election Commission of India as a State Party in Kerala The party is a major member of the opposition United Democratic Front the Indian National Congress lead pre poll state level alliance in Kerala 64 Whenever the United Democratic Front rules in Kerala the party leaders are chosen as important Cabinet Ministers 64 Bangladesh Edit Main article Awami League The Muslim League formed its government in East Bengal immediately after the partition of Bengal with Khawaja Nazimuddin becoming the first Chief Minister citation needed Problems in East Pakistan for the Muslim League began to rise following the issue of the Constitution of Pakistan Furthermore the Bengali Language Movement proved to be the last event that led the Muslim League to lose its mandate in East Bengal The Muslim League s national conservatism program also faced several setbacks and resistance from the Communist Party of Pakistan In an interview given to print media Nurul Amin stated that the communists had played an integral and major role in staging the massive protests mass demonstrations and strikes for the Bengali Language Movement 65 All over the country the political parties had favoured the general elections in Pakistan with the exception of the Muslim League 66 In 1954 legislative elections were to be held for the Parliament 66 Unlike in West Punjab not all of the Hindu population migrated to India instead a large number stayed in the state 66 The influence of the Communist Party deepened and its goal of attaining power was finally realised during the elections The United Front the Communist Party and the Awami League returned to power inflicting a severe defeat to the Muslim League 66 Out of 309 the Muslim League only won 10 seats whereas the Communist Party got 4 seats of the ten contested The communists working with other parties had secured 22 additional seats totalling 26 The right wing Jamaat e Islami had completely failed in the elections 66 In 1955 the United Front named Abu Hussain Sarkar as the Chief Minister of the State and he ruled the state in two non consecutive terms until 1958 when martial law was imposed 66 The Muslim League remained as a minor party in East Pakistan but participated with full rigour during the Pakistan general elections in 1970 It won 10 seats from East Pakistan and 7 seats from other parts of Pakistan After the independence of Bangladesh the Muslim League was revived in 1976 but its size was reduced rendering it insignificant in the political arena citation needed United Kingdom Edit During the 1940s the Muslim League had a United Kingdom chapter active in the British politics After the establishment of Pakistan the Pakistani community s leaders took over the UK branch choosing Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola as president of the party to continue to serve its purpose in the United Kingdom 67 At present the Muslim League s UK branch is led by the PML N with Zubair Gull as its president 67 Historical versions EditHistorically Pakistan Muslim League can also refer to any of the following political parties in Pakistan 68 Muslim League the original successor of the All India Muslim League which was disbanded during the first martial law Convention Muslim League a political platform created by General Ayub Khan in 1962 when he became the president Council Muslim League a party created by political leaders who opposed General Ayub Khan Muslim League a party created by Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan when he split with the Council Muslim League to run for the 1970 general elections See also EditIndian Independence Movement Muslim nationalism in South Asia Indian Nationalism List of presidents of the All India Muslim LeagueReferences Edit The Muslim League a progress report www himalmag com 1 February 1998 Sajjad Mohammad 2014 Muslim Politics in Bihar Changing Contours Routledge ISBN 9781317559818 Atheist Fundamentalists The Times of India Keen Shirin 1998 Partition of India Emory University Retrieved 9 February 2019 a b Establishment of All India Muslim League Story of Pakistan June 2003 p 1 Retrieved 14 February 2014 Muslim League Banglapedia a b Rizvi H 2000 Military State and Society in Pakistan Palgrave Macmillan UK pp 69 ISBN 978 0 230 59904 8 The Muslim League maintained an elitist character until 1937 when its leadership began to engage in popular mobilisation It functioned as a mass and popular party for 7 8 years after the Congress provincial ministries resigned in 1939 more so after the passage of the Lahore Resolution in March 1940 Keay John 2000 India A History Atlantic Monthly Press p 468 ISBN 978 0 8021 3797 5 Heavily supported by mainly landed and commercial Muslim interests they duly consummated this distrust of Congress by forming the All India Muslim League Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan s speech at Meerut 16 March 1888 www columbia edu Retrieved 24 July 2020 Jalal Ayesha 1994 The Sole Spokesman Jinnah the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan Cambridge University Press p 4 ISBN 978 0 521 45850 4 In 1940 the A I M L formally demanded independent Muslim states repudiating the minority status which separate representation necessarily entailed and instead asserted that Muslims were a nation The claim was built upon the demand for Pakistan But from first to last Jinnah avoided giving the demand a precise definition Metcalf Barbara Metcalf Thomas 2006 A Concise History of Modern India PDF 2nd ed Cambridge University Press pp 136 137 ISBN 978 0 511 24558 9 Rashid Khan Abdul January June 2007 All India Muhammadan Educational Conference and the Foundation of the All India Muslim League Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society 55 1 2 65 83 a b Pakistan movement Commencement and evolution p 167 168 by Dr Sikandar Hayat Khan and Shandana Zahid published by Urdu Science Board Lahore ISBN 969 477 122 6 Talbot Ian Singh Gurharpal 23 July 2009 The Partition of India Cambridge University Press p 30 ISBN 978 0 521 85661 4 Robinson Francis 1974 Separatism Among Indian Muslims The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims 1860 1923 Cambridge University Press p 153 ISBN 978 0 521 04826 2 Robinson Francis 1974 Separatism Among Indian Muslims The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims 1860 1923 Cambridge University Press pp 153 154 ISBN 978 0 521 04826 2 Robinson Francis 1974 Separatism Among Indian Muslims The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims 1860 1923 Cambridge University Press p 154 ISBN 978 0 521 04826 2 Robinson Francis 1974 Separatism Among Indian Muslims The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims 1860 1923 Cambridge University Press p 156 ISBN 978 0 521 04826 2 Robinson Francis 1974 Separatism Among Indian Muslims The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims 1860 1923 Cambridge University Press p 157 ISBN 978 0 521 04826 2 Robinson Francis 1974 Separatism Among Indian Muslims The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims 1860 1923 Cambridge University Press p 158 ISBN 978 0 521 04826 2 Robinson Francis 1974 Separatism Among Indian Muslims The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims 1860 1923 Cambridge University Press p 159 ISBN 978 0 521 04826 2 Robinson Francis 1974 Separatism Among Indian Muslims The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims 1860 1923 Cambridge University Press p 160 ISBN 978 0 521 04826 2 Robinson Francis 1974 Separatism Among Indian Muslims The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims 1860 1923 Cambridge University Press pp 160 161 ISBN 978 0 521 04826 2 Robinson Francis 1974 Separatism Among Indian Muslims The Politics of the United Provinces Muslims 1860 1923 Cambridge University Press p 161 ISBN 978 0 521 04826 2 Establishment of All India Muslim League Story of Pakistan June 2003 p 2 Retrieved 11 May 2007 Valliani Amin January June 2007 Aga Khan s Role in the Founding and Consolidation of the All India Muslim League Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society 55 1 2 85 95 Hasan Mushirul March 1985 Nationalist and Separatist Trends in Aligarh 1915 47 The Indian Economic and Social History Review 22 1 1 33 doi 10 1177 001946468502200101 S2CID 144414983 Markovits Claude ed 2004 First published 1994 as Histoire de l Inde Moderne A History of Modern India 1480 1950 London Anthem Press pp 371 372 ISBN 978 1 84331 004 4 Remarkable unity shown between Hindus and Muslims during the Khilafat movement the tension between the religious communities worsened the reforms of 1919 had encouraged Muslim separatism by maintaining constituencies reserved for Muslims having to get only the votes of their coreligionists Hindu and Muslim politicians tended to emphasise what divided rather than what united the two communities Sarkar Sumit 1989 First published 1983 Modern India 1885 1947 Macmillan p 233 ISBN 978 0 333 43805 3 Three waves of riots in Calcutta disturbances the same year in Dacca Patna Rawalpindi and Delhi and no less than 91 communal outbreaks in U P the worst affected province between 1923 and 1927 Brown Judith M 1985 Modern India The Origins of an Asian Democracy Oxford University Press p 228 ISBN 978 0 19 913124 2 By 1923 only 3 6 per cent of Congress delegates were Muslims compared with 10 9 per cent in 1921 Ludden David E 1996 Contesting the nation religion community and the politics of democracy in India U of Pennsylvania Press p 93 ISBN 978 0812215854 Lyon Peter 2008 Conflict between India and Pakistan an encyclopedia ABC CLIO p 85 ISBN 978 1 57607 712 2 Holt P M Lambton Ann K S Lewis Bernard 1977 The Cambridge History of Islam Cambridge University Press p 103ff ISBN 978 0 521 29137 8 Tariq Abdur Rahman ed 1973 Speeches and Statements of Iqbal Lahore Sh Ghulam All amp Sons pp 11 12 OCLC 652259138 Grover Verinder ed 1995 Political Thinkers of Modern Muslim India Vol 26 Mohammad Iqbal New Delhi Deep amp Deep Publications pp 666 67 ISBN 9788171005727 Chand Tara 1972 History of the Freedom Movement in India Vol 3 New Delhi Publications Division Ministry of Information and Broadcasting pp 252 253 OCLC 80100683 It is however doubtful whether he Iqbal contemplated the partition of India and the establishment of a sovereign Muslim state at Allahabad in December 1930 It was certainly not a scheme for the partition of India into two independent sovereign states his plan of amalgamating Panjab North West Frontier Province Sind and Baluchistan in one autonomous region There is no reference here to the two nation theory and to the incompatibility of Hindu and Muslim cultures lang 23 24 amp 25 March 2003 full citation needed Also see Mahmood Safdar 2004 Iqbal Jinnah aur Pakistan in Urdu Lahore Khazina Ilm wa Adab pp 52 69 Full text of the pamphlet Now or Never published by Choudhary Rahmat Ali http www columbia edu itc mealac pritchett 00islamlinks txt rahmatali 1933 html Ali Choudhary Rahmat 1978 First published 1935 Pakistan the fatherland of the Pak nation 3rd ed Lahore Book Traders pp 224 225 OCLC 12241695 Nehru Jawaharlal 1946 Discovery of India New York John Day Company p 353 OCLC 370700 Dhulipala Venkat 2015 Creating a New Medina State Power Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India Cambridge University Press pp 50 ISBN 978 1 316 25838 5 During this growth spurt the ML itself was transformed from an elite moribund organization into a mass based party that gave itself a new constitution a more radical ideology and a revamped organizational structure Sebestyen Victor 2014 1946 The Making of the Modern World Pan Macmillan UK pp 247 ISBN 978 1 74353 456 4 That too had begun life as a cosy club of upper class Indians seeking a limited range of extra privileges for Indian Muslims However under the leadership of Mohammad Ali Jinnah the League grew rapidly to a membership of more than two million and its message became increasingly religious and separatist in tone Khan Yasmin 2017 First published in 2007 The Great Partition The Making of India and Pakistan New ed Yale University Press p 18 ISBN 978 0 300 23364 3 Although it was founded in 1909 the League had only caught on among South Asian Muslims during the Second World War The party had expanded astonishingly rapidly and was claiming over two million members by the early 1940s an unimaginable result for what had been previously thought of as just one of the numerous pressure groups and small but insignificant parties Talbot Ian 1982 The growth of the Muslim League in the Punjab 1937 1946 Journal of Commonwealth amp Comparative Politics 20 1 5 24 doi 10 1080 14662048208447395 Despite their different viewpoints all these theories have tended either to concentrate on the All India struggle between the Muslim League and the Congress in the pre partition period or to turn their interest to the Muslim cultural heartland of the UP where the League gained its earliest foothold and where the demand for Pakistan was strongest Dhulipala Venkat 2010 Rallying the Qaum The Muslim League in the United Provinces 1937 1939 Modern Asian Studies 44 3 603 640 doi 10 1017 s0026749x09004016 JSTOR 40664926 S2CID 144798260 Talbot Ian 1993 The role of the crowd in the Muslim League struggle for Pakistan The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 21 2 307 333 doi 10 1080 03086539308582893 Huge crowds attended Muslim League meetings and flocked to glimpse Jinnah as he journeyed about India from 1937 onwards They also joined in processions strikes and riots Hay Stephen 1988 First published 1958 Sources of Indian Tradition Vol 2 Second ed Columbia University Press p 230 ISBN 978 0 231 06650 1 Lyon Peter 2008 Conflict between India and Pakistan an encyclopedia ABC CLIO p 108 ISBN 978 1 57607 712 2 The Lahore Resolution was moved by a Bengali Fazlul Huq Haq Ayoob Mohammed 2 November 2017 Gandhi s Role in the Partition of India Foreign Affairs Archived from the original on 6 July 2020 Qasmi Ali Usman Robb Megan Eaton 2017 Muslims against the Muslim League Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan Cambridge University Press p 2 ISBN 9781108621236 Haq Mushir U 1970 Muslim politics in modern India 1857 1947 Meenakshi Prakashan p 114 OCLC 136880 This was also reflected in one of the resolutions of the Azad Muslim Conference an organization which attempted to be representative of all the various nationalist Muslim parties and groups in India a b Ahmed Ishtiaq 27 May 2016 The dissenters The Friday Times However the book is a tribute to the role of one Muslim leader who steadfastly opposed the Partition of India the Sindhi leader Allah Bakhsh Soomro Allah Bakhsh belonged to a landed family He founded the Sindh People s Party in 1934 which later came to be known as Ittehad or Unity Party Allah Bakhsh was totally opposed to the Muslim League s demand for the creation of Pakistan through a division of India on a religious basis Consequently he established the Azad Muslim Conference In its Delhi session held during April 27 30 1940 some 1400 delegates took part They belonged mainly to the lower castes and working class The famous scholar of Indian Islam Wilfred Cantwell Smith feels that the delegates represented a majority of India s Muslims Among those who attended the conference were representatives of many Islamic theologians and women also took part in the deliberations Shamsul Islam argues that the All India Muslim League at times used intimidation and coercion to silence any opposition among Muslims to its demand for Partition He calls such tactics of the Muslim League as a Reign of Terror He gives examples from all over India including the NWFP where the Khudai Khidmatgars remain opposed to the Partition of India a b c Ali Afsar 17 July 2017 Partition of India and Patriotism of Indian Muslims The Milli Gazette a b Kumar Pramod 1992 Towards Understanding Communalism Centre for Research in Rural and Industrial Development p 22 ISBN 9788185835174 His consciousness was not transformed into communal consciousness so much so that the Muslim League goondas attacked him several times For instance in 1945 Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madani was touring India to plead for composite nationalism and for opposing the idea of partition Near Moradabad railway station Muslim League goondas threw Keechar marshy water on him Engineer Asgharali 1987 Ethnic conflict in south Asia Ajanta Publications p 28 At one time in 1945 Maulana Hussain Ahmad Madani was touring throughout India to plead for composite nationalism and for opposing the idea of partition once he was coming out of the railway station near Moradabad and Muslim League goondas threw keechar marshy water on him Siddiqi Farhan Hanif 4 May 2012 The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan The Baloch Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements Routledge ISBN 978 1 136 33697 3 a b Jalal Ayesha 2002 Self and Sovereignty Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850 Routledge p 415 ISBN 9781134599370 a b Abid Abdul Majeed 29 December 2014 The forgotten massacre The Nation On the same dates Muslim League led mobs fell with determination and full preparations on the helpless Hindus and Sikhs scattered in the villages of Multan Rawalpindi Campbellpur Jhelum and Sargodha The murderous mobs were well supplied with arms such as daggers swords spears and fire arms A former civil servant mentioned in his autobiography that weapon supplies had been sent from NWFP and money was supplied by Delhi based politicians They had bands of stabbers and their auxiliaries who covered the assailant ambushed the victim and if necessary disposed of his body These bands were subsidized monetarily by the Muslim League and cash payments were made to individual assassins based on the numbers of Hindus and Sikhs killed There were also regular patrolling parties in jeeps which went about sniping and picking off any stray Hindu or Sikh Thousands of non combatants including women and children were killed or injured by mobs supported by the All India Muslim League Chitkara M G 1996 Mohajir s Pakistan APH Publishing ISBN 9788170247463 When the idea of Pakistan was not accepted in the Northern States of India the Muslim League sent out its goons to drive the Hindus out of Lahore Multan and Rawalpindi and appropriate their property Bali Amar Nath 1949 Now it can be told Akashvani Prakashan Publishers p 19 The pamphlet Rape of Rawalpindi gives gruesome details of what was done to the minorities in the Rawalpindi Division No such details have been published for other towns but the pattern of barbarities committed by the Muslim League goondas was the same everywhere Ranjan Amit 2018 Partition of India Postcolonial Legacies Taylor amp Francis ISBN 9780429750526 In the evening of 6 March Muslim mobs numbering in the thousands headed towards Sikh villages in Rawalpindi Attock and Jhelum districts According to British sources some two thousand people were killed in the carnage in three rural district almost all non Muslims The Sikhs claimed seven thousand dead Government reports showed that Muslim ex service persons had taken part in the planned attacks The Muslim League leaders Jinnah and others did not issue any condemenation of these atrocities M S Amogh 20 May 2011 A history project on the impact of the AIMD on the future courses of India and Pakistan Online Daily Masood Alauddin 25 January 2008 PML Perpetually Multiplying Leagues The Weekly a b c d e f g Explained History of Muslim League in Kerala and India The Indian Express 6 April 2019 Retrieved 4 August 2019 Nair M Bhaskaran 1990 Politics in Bangladesh A Study of Awami League 1949 58 New Delhi India Northern Book Centre pp 73 ISBN 978 81 85119 79 3 a b c d e f Ali Tariq 2002 The Clash of Fundamentalism United Kingdom New Left Book plc p 181 ISBN 978 1 85984 457 1 a b Muslim League in UK PMLN Muslim League in UK Archived from the original on 4 June 2014 Retrieved 15 February 2014 Mumtaz Ashraf Dawn Pakistan 14 May 2006 Further reading EditCohen Stephen Philip 2004 The Idea of Pakistan Washington D C Brookings Institution Press ISBN 978 0 8157 1503 0 Graham George Farquhar Irving 1974 The Life and Work of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Karachi Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 636069 0 Malik Iftikar H 2008 The History of Pakistan The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations Westport Conn Greenwood Press ISBN 978 0 313 34137 3 Moore R J 1983 Jinnah and the Pakistan Demand Modern Asian Studies 17 4 529 561 doi 10 1017 s0026749x00011069 JSTOR 312235 S2CID 144125491 al Mujahid Shairf January June 2007 Reconstructing the Saga of the All India Muslim League 1906 47 Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society 55 1 2 15 26 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Muslim League Government of Pakistan website Pakistan News website The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Chronicles Of Pakistan Jinnah at a Meeting of the Muslim League 16 second QuickTime film clip Colloquium on the One Hundred 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