Tag: the growth of communalism

The proposal to form a central organisation for Muslims was accepted and political association  "All-India Muslim League" was set up on December 30, 1906, under the Presidentship of Nawab Salimullah. Aga Khan was elected as Permanent President of the Muslim League.

A change in the attitude of the Muslim League and Jinnah after the election of 1937 and formation of the Congress Ministers in the provinces. Jinnah and other leaders of the League proclaimed that Muslim could not expect any justice at the hands of Congress.

The economic backwardness of the country contributed to the growth of communalism in India. Due to the British colonial policy, India lacked modern industrial development and there was acute unemployment among the educated youth, as a consequence, there was fierce competition among the youth to secure the few available jobs. This led the people to demand reservation in jobs on the basis of caste, creed or religion.

In the United Provinces Urdu was the court language and all the petitions to the offices and courts were submitted in Urdu. Some sections of the society protested against this practice. On April 8, 1900, the Government instructed that all petitions were to be submitted in Hindi, in Devanagri script, and the court summons and official announcements to be issued in Hindi as well as in Urdu. The Muslims resented this. The controversy continued for months and relations between the communities became worse.

The Muslim League was founded in 1906 to safeguard the rights of Indian Muslims. At first the league was encouraged by the British and was generally favourable to their rule, but the organization adopted self - government for India as its goal in 1913. For several decades the league and its leaders , notably Mohammed Ali Jinnah, called for Hindu - Muslim unity in a united and independent India.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.

Chaudhry Rehmat Ali was a Panjab Muslim student at Cambridge. Chaudhry Rahmat Ali , founder of the Pakistan National Movement , was born in 1895. From his early childhood , Rahmat Ali showed signs of great promise as a student. After completing his schooling, he joined the Islamia college of Lahore in order to get his Bachelor of Arts degree. Rahmat Ali finished education in England, obtaining MA and LLB with honors from the universities of Cambridge and Dublin.

"Sare Jahan se Achha Hindustan Hamara" poet wrote by Mohammad Iqbal. The philosopher, poet and politician Allama Muhammad Iqbal, who created one of the most enduring patriotic poems of the Urdu language. Known alternatively as "Tarana -e -Hind", this song was originally a poem written by Muhammad Iqbal. The poem was published in the weekly journal lttehad on August 16, 1904. Recited by Iqbal the following year at Government College , Lahore, the song quickly became an anthem of opposition to the British rule in India.

M A Jinnah was the leader of the Muslim League. Muhammad Ai Jinnah was born December 25, 1876, in Karachi, Pakistan. In 1906 he joined the Indian National Congress. Seven years later , he joined the India Muslim League . The independent state of Pakistan that Jinnah had envisioned came to be on August 14, 1947. The following day , he was sworn in as Pakistan's first governor - general. On September 11, 1948, he died near Karachi, Pakistan.