Anjuman-i-Watan Baluchistan

The Anjuman-i-Watan, Baluchistan (Balochi: انجمن وطن بلوچستان), commonly called Anjuman-i-Watan, was a political party in British India based in the province of Baluchistan.^[1] It was led by Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai.^[2]

It was a member of the All India Azad Muslim Conference and opposed the partition of India.^[3]

The Anjuman-i-Watan allied itself with the Indian National Congress and also worked with the Anjuman-e-Ittehad-e-Balochan-wa-Balochistan, as well as its successor, the Kalat State National Party.^[4][5]

See also

• Opposition to the partition of India

References

1. 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.
2. Mathur, Yaduvansh Bahadur (1972). Muslims and changing India. Trimurti Publications. p. 275.
3. Ali, Afsar (17 July 2017). "Partition of India and Patriotism of Indian Muslims". The Milli Gazette. The Conference had organized a meeting to oppose Pakistan resolution, on April 27, 1940 in Delhi, which in every aspect was a much more representative organization of Muslim opinion from all over the country than the Muslim League session held a month back at Lahore. The major Muslim organizations represented in the Conference were –All India Jamiat Ulama, All India Momin Conference, All India Majlis-e-Ahrar,All India Shia Political Conference, Khudai Khidmatgars, Bengal Krishak Proja Party, All India Muslim Parliamentary Board, The Anjuman-e-Watan (Baluchistan), All India Muslim Majlis, and Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadees.
4. Indian National Congress. All India Congress Committee. 1940. p. 90. The Anjuman-i-Watan expressed a desire to be converted into a Congress Committee and affiliated to the Indian National Congress.
5. Talbot, Ian (1988). Provincial Politics and the Pakistan Movement: The Growth of the Muslim League in North-west and North-east India 1937-47. Oxford University Press. p. 117. ISBN 9780195773873.