Q21
Read the following extract carefully and answer the questions that follow :
The Muslim League resolution of 1940
The League’s resolution of 1940 demanded :
That geographically contiguous units are demarcated into regions, which should be so constituted, with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary, that the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in a majority as in the north-western and eastern zones of India should be grouped to constitute “Independent States”, in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign.
1. Identify the major demands of the Muslim League.
2. Analyse the reasons for the demand of autonom
Solution
The Muslim League resolution of 1940
1. The Muslim League moved a resolution at Lahore demanding a measure of autonomy for the Muslim-majority areas of the subcontinent. The areas of Muslim majority in North West and Eastern zones should be grouped together to constitute independent states. The constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign.
2. 1. The outcome of provincial elections of 1937 and the attitude of the Congress thereafter.
2. They wanted autonomous and sovereign zones for Muslims.
3. They wanted geographically contiguous units demarcated into regions.
4.Muslim majority areas can be made autonomous.
5. Emphasis on two nation theory,
6.They felt that only a Muslim majority province will ensure the protection and preservation of Muslim culture
3. On 23 March 1940, the Muslim League moved a resolution at Lahore demanding a measure of autonomy for the Muslim-majority areas of the subcontinent. However, the resolution never mentioned partition or Pakistan.
Muslim League Resolution of 1940 :
1. They wanted autonomy for Muslims and sovereign zones for Muslims.
2. They wanted geographically contiguous units demarcated into regions.
3. Muslim majority areas can be made autonomous. In fact Sikandar Hayat Khan, Punjab Premier and leader of the Unionist Party, who had drafted the resolution, declared in a Punjab assembly speech on 1 March 1941 that he was opposed to the idea of Pakistan that would mean “Muslim Raj here and Hindu Raj elsewhere … If Pakistan means unalloyed Muslim Raj in the Punjab then I will have nothing to do with it.”
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