Lahore Resolution:

1. Impact of WW2 (1939-1945)

2. Joining World War 2 without the consent of Indian leaders
3. Ali Jinnah called a general session of All India Muslim League in Lahore to discuss the
situation.
4. Hossain Shaheed Suhrawardy and Ak Fazlul Haq led the Muslim League
5. Ali Jinnah criticized the Congress and the Nationalist Muslims and called for a Two
Nation Theory.
6. Sikandar Hayat Khan, the Chief Minister of Panjab drafted the original Lahore resolution
7. The Resolution: The areas where the Muslims are numerically in a majority as in the
Northwester and Eastern zones of India should be grouped to constitute “Independent
States” in which the constituted units shall be autonomous and sovereign.
8. The resolution was adopted on 24 March, 1940.
9. The Hindu Press dubbed it as the Pakistani demand.
10. The meaning of Lahore Resolution was shortened and propagated.
11. The Muslims of Bengal who were searching for an identity found it appealing as it gave
them a sense of nationhood.
12. On 15 April, 1941, the Lahore Resolution was incorporated as a creed in the constitution
of the All-India Muslim League in its Madras Session.
13. It continued in this way until the independence of Pakistan in 1947.
14. When the Cabinet Mission arrived in India in March, 1946 to consult with the Indian
Leaders, All- India Muslim League decided to hold a three-day conference at Delhi to
restate their Pakistan Demand.
15. Chowdhury Khaliquzzaman prepared a draft of the resolution with some minor changes
using the term ‘states’ instead of ‘state’.
16. That Pakistan should be established as an independent state was proposed by
Suhrawardy and seconded by Chowdhury Khaliquzzaman.
17. Abul Hashim disagreed and proposed ‘a’ instead of ‘one’.
18. On July 30, 1946 Jinnah encouraged Abul Hashim to work on the basis of the Lahore
Resolution. Rumor has it that Jinnah accepted Abul Hashim’s suggestion.
The Partition of Indian Sub-continent(Bengal):
1. India had always been a subject of possession to the British since 1858.
2. Self-rule was heavily debated since early 19th
3. In 1935, British India was supposed to be granted self-government.
4. But it never happened as majority disagreed.
5. In 1939, Britain wanted the involvement of India and did it without the consent of Indian
leaders.
6. The congress demanded full independence in return of co-operation.
7. The British sent Cripps Mission to India in 1942 to tend to this issue but it failed.
8. This ultimately led to “Quit India” movement.
9. All congress leaders were put behind the bars until the end of war.
10. In 1945, the Lahore Party came to power in Britain and vow to liberate India.
11. Mohammad Ali Jinnah declared 16 August, 1946 as Direct Action Day as a show of force
of support from the Muslim Community for a separate nation.
12. It was led by many leaders, most famously Allama Iqbal in India.
13. The term ‘Pak-stan’ was coined by Choudhury Rahmat Ali.
14. The separate nation idea was resisted by Congress.
15. The first partition scheme was outlined in April 1947.
16. Jawaharlal Nehru was against the idea of partition itself.
17. On June 4, the scheme to partition was announced on the All-India Radio.
18. The partition came as a great shock to Mahatma Gandhi but the Congress accepted the
proposition anyway.