Question

In which year the demand for separate Pakistan was raised by Muslim League ?
1. 1922
2. 1935
3. 1940
4. 1945

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : 1940

the correct answer is 1940.

• The Muslim League was founded in 1906 to safeguard the rights of Indian Muslims.
  • It was founded in Dhaka, British India.
  • The first conference of the Muslim League was held at Amritsar.
  • Aga Khan was the first President of the Muslim League.
  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined the league in 1913.

 

• Muslim League demanded a separate Pakistan state in 1940.
  • It was not until 1940 that the league called for the formation of a new Muslim state that would be separate from existing India.
  • Muslim League feared that an independent India would be dominated by Hindus.
  • The Muslim League led the movement calling for a separate Muslim nation to be created at the time of the partition of British India (1947).
  • Muhammad Ali Jinnah is considered the father of the "two-nation theory".
  • The "two-nation theory" was put forwarded in the Lahore session of the Muslim League in 1940.
  • Jinnah gave a speech in Lahore in which he talked of the impossibility of living as one nation in 1940.
• The name Pakistan was first coined by Rahmat Ali.
• Muslim League celebrated 22^nd December 1939 as Deliverance day.
• Muslim League celebrated direct action day on 16^th August 1946.