What is the meaning of Muslim League?

The All-India Muslim League (popularised as the Muslim League) was a political party established in 1906 in British India. Its strong advocacy, from 1930 onwards, for the establishment of a separate Muslim-majority nation-state, Pakistan, successfully led to the partition of India in 1947 by the British Empire.

Who founded the All India Muslim League?

Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Aga Khan IIIKhwaja SalimullahHakim Ajmal KhanWaqar-ul-Mulk
All-India Muslim League/Founders

How was All India Muslim League formed?

A resolution to form the All India Muslim League was passed by Nawab Salimullah Khan and was seconded by Hakim Ajmal Khan, Maulana Muhammad Ali and Moulana Zafar Ali. The resolution was passed by All India Educational Conference on 30th December 1906. A committee was formed to prepare its draft constitution.

What were the objectives of All India Muslim League?

The chief aim of the league was to promote and secure civil rights for Muslims. The league was favored and encouraged by the British until the organization adopted self government for India as their goal in 1913. The several leaders and Mohammad Ali Jinnah called for Hindu-Muslim unity till the early 1940.

What is the meaning of India?

Origin. Via Latin from Greek India, from Indos, the name of the River Indus, from Persian Hind, from Sanskrit sindhu ‘river’, specifically ‘the Indus’, also ‘the region around the Indus’ (compare with Sindhi). Both the Greeks and the Persians extended the name to include all the country east of the Indus.

Protecting the political and other rights of the Muslims and to extend the needs and sentiments of the Indian Muslims before the British Government in a respective manner.

Making the other communities of Indian understand that Muslim of India were not against their interests.

Promoting the sentiment

What were the achievements of All India Muslim League?

The main and the foremost objective and aim of All India Muslim League was to protect the rights of Muslims and to present their demands to the British. Most important achievement of Muslim League was the gaining of separate electorate for the Muslims in the Minto-Morley Reforms of 1909.

Why was the All India Muslim League formed?

The ‘All India Muslim League’ was formed as a result of a section of people of the country , who were Muslims, who needed a separate political party, which they thought could satisfy their needs. The Muslims already lagged behind by 20 years of the Indian National Congress.

When did Quaid-e-Azam join All India Muslim League?

He was already a member of the Indian National Congress, which was working for autonomy from British rule, when he joined the Muslim League in 1913. The league had formed a few years earlier to…