O Level Pakistan Studies History · The emergence of Pakistan: 1940 to 1947. A short explanation of the idea, the rules to remember, the mistake to avoid, a worked example and practice questions with answers.
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Three men shaped the idea of Pakistan in different ways. Jinnah began in the Congress and worked for Hindu-Muslim unity, as in the Lucknow Pact of 1916. He left the Congress in 1920 because he opposed Gandhi's non-cooperation. After the Nehru Report and Congress rule he became convinced that Muslims needed their own state, built the League into a mass party and negotiated Pakistan with the British.
Allama Iqbal, the poet and thinker, was the first major leader to propose a Muslim state in the north-west, in 1930.
Rahmat Ali, a student at Cambridge, gave the idea a name in 1933.
The usual mistake is to give Iqbal the credit for the name 'Pakistan'. Iqbal gave the idea of a north-western Muslim state in 1930; Rahmat Ali gave the name in 1933. Neither of these early schemes included Bengal.
Answer: Rahmat Ali, in 'Now or Never' (1933).
Try each one, then open the answer.
Answer: A. Membership was opened to ordinary Muslims at a low fee and provincial branches were built up, which paid off in the 1945–46 elections.
Answer: A. Jinnah preferred constitutional methods and opposed non-cooperation at the Nagpur session of 1920.
Answer: C. The Allahabad address of December 1930 is remembered for its proposal of a north-west Muslim state.
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