Question

All India Muslim League was founded in the year
1. 1905
2. 1904
3. 1907
4. 1906

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : 1906

The correct answer is 1906.

• All India Muslim League:
  •  The AIML was the first Muslim political party of India founded in the year 1906.
  • The idea was that the Congress Party was only catering to the needs of the Hindus.
  • This was an erroneous idea since Congress always meant to include every community of the country and had many Muslim leaders as members.
  • The founders of the Muslim League were: Khwaja Salimullah, Vikar-ul-Mulk, Syed Amir Ali, Syed Nabiullah, Khan Bahadur Ghulam, and Mustafa Chowdhury.
  • The first Honorary President of the League was Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (Aga Khan III).
  • The AIML was essentially a party of educated elite Muslims, at least in the beginning.
  • The party’s chief aim was to promote and secure civil rights for Muslims.
  • It espoused loyalty to the British government as a means to achieve more political and civil rights.

 

• The objectives of the league were:
  • To create among Muslims feelings of loyalty towards the British Government.
  • To safeguard the political rights of the Muslims and to convey the same to the government.
  • To prevent the rise of prejudice against other communities of India among the Muslims.
  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined the league in 1913.
  • When the Congress party was opposed to the government and fighting for the gradual establishment of an independent India, the league propounded loyalty to the government.
  • They, in fact, provided the government with a tool to fight the growing nationalism in the country.
  • Even though partition of the country was not on the minds of Indian Muslims in the early years of the league, it came into the picture after 1930.
  • Leaders of the league began the propaganda that Hindus and Muslims are not one nation and have separate cultures and identities although they have been cohabiting for centuries.