Partition of India,1947
Presented by
Md. Abdullah Al Helal
Lecturer, GED
Northern University Bangladesh
E-mail: helalabdullah@gmil.com
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Partition of India,1947
Lahore Resolution:
In 1940, Mohammed Ali Jinnah called a general
session of the All India Muslim League in
Lahore to discuss the situation that had arisen
due to the outbreak of the Second World War
and the Government of India joining the war
without taking the opinion of the Indian leaders.
To analyse the reasons that led to the defeat of
the Muslim League in the general election of
1937 in the Muslim majority provinces
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Partition of India,1947
Lahore Resolution:
On March 23, 1940, a resolution was moved in the
open session of the Muslim League by A.K.
Fazlul Huq.
The Lahore Resolution ran as follows:
That the areas where the Muslims are numerically
in a majority as in the Northwestern and Eastern
zones of India should be grouped to constitute
'independent states' in which the constituent
units shall be autonomous and sovereign.
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Partition of India,1947
Lahore Resolution:
The news of the adoption of the resolution was
flashed all over the world.
The Nationalist press supplied the Muslim masses
a concentrated slogan which immediately
conveyed to them the idea of a state.
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Partition of India,1947
Formation of Pakistan:
Pakistan came into being as a Muslim state on
14 August 1947 consequent upon the end of
the British colonial rule.
But the Congress opposed all proposals for
partition and advocated a united India with a
strong centre and a fully responsible
parliamentary government.
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Partition of India,1947
Formation of Pakistan:
In August 1942, Gandhi launched quit India
movement against the British.
Jinnah condemned the movement.
The govt. retaliated by arresting about 60,000
individuals and outlawing Congress.
Communal riots increased. Talks between Jinnah
and Gandhi 1944 proved as futile as
negotiations between Gandhi and viceroy.
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Partition of India,1947
Formation of Pakistan:
During World War II, the Muslim League and
Indian National Congress adopted different
attitude toward British rule.
Muslim League, however, followed a course of
cooperation, gaining time to consolidate.
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Partition of India,1947
Formation of Pakistan:
Muslim League’s success could be gauged from
its sweep of 90 percent of the Muslim seats in
the 1946 elections, as against only 4.5 percent
in the 1937 election.
Congress and the Muslim League emerged from
the 1946 election as the two dominant parties.
Although the Muslim League again was unable to
capture a majority of the Muslim seats in the
North-West Frontier Province.
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Partition of India,1947
Formation of Pakistan:
When the viceroy proceeded to form a interim
government without the Muslim League, Jinnah
called for demonstrations or direct action day on
16 August 1946.
Communal riot broke out on an unprecedented
scale, especially in Bengal and Bihar.
The massacre of Muslim in Calcutta brought
Gandhi’s to the scene, where he worked with
the Muslim League chief minister, Huseyn
Shaheed Suhrawardi.
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Partition of India,1947
Formation of Pakistan:
In July 1947, the Indian independent act was
passed to set up the Dominions of India and
Pakistan.
On August 14, 1947, within eight years of the
adoption of the Lahore Resolution, Pakistan
emerged as an Independent sovereign state
And the next day India achieved Independence.
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