WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
Question
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Pakistan
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Calcutta
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Afghanistan
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Burma
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Pakistan Movement (Urdu: , romanized: Teḥrīk-e-Pākistān) was a political movement in the first half of the 20th century that aimed for the creation of Pakistan from the Muslim-majority areas of British India.
Detailed explanation-2: -On 30 December 1906, around 3000 delegates attended a conference of the Muhammadan Educational Conference at Dhaka in which the ban on politics was removed and a motion was moved to form the AIML. The name was proposed by Nawab Khwaja Sir Salimullah Bahadur and seconded by Hakim Ajmal Khan.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was not until 1940 that the league called for the formation of a Muslim state that would be separate from the projected independent country of India. The league wanted a separate nation for India’s Muslims because it feared that an independent India would be dominated by Hindus.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.
Detailed explanation-5: -In a meeting of the leading Muslims of India held at Lucknow on October 20-21, 1901, under the presidentship of Syed Sharafuddin (1856-1921), it was unanimously resolved that a Muslim organization should be formed to look after their social and political interests (Ahmad, 1977: 69).