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The major players of the First World War anticipated and planned the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire into many regions since the very inception of war. Territories and the people led by the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire were conglomerated. The French and the British army occupied Istambul in November 1918 which led to the partitioning of the Empire. The ...Read More »

The British government sent seven members of the parliament to India to mull over the constitutional reforms by the British government. It was called Simon Commission on the name of John Simon who chaired the seven-member commission. The other six members were Clement Atlee, Harry levy-Lawson, Edward Cadogan, Vernon Hartshorne, George Lane-Fox, and Donald Howard. Interestingly enough, the Commission did ...Read More »

Nehru Report (1928) heralded the Hindu designs towards the Muslims as it proved to be a Hindu document concerned only with the interests of the Hindus. It overtly countered the interests, concerns, and safeguards of the Muslims of the Sub-Continent rejecting the separate electorate. It also disregarded the Delhi Proposals. Consequently, the Muslims felt themselves adrift and looked into the ...Read More »

After the Nehru Report (1928) which deliberately tried to outlaw the Muslims from the legislature of India and denied their separate electorate without which their identity, interests, and even existence was in danger. Muslim intelligentsia played their role to combat the situation and found solutions of India’s constitutional, communal, religious, and cultural differences and disputes. Allama Mohammad Iqbal was one ...Read More »

The British government appointed a Select Committee of 16 members ( from the House of Lords and House of Commons) to formulate the new constitution of India in 1935 after a sequence of political events including Nehru Report (1928), Fourteen Points of Jinnah (1929), and the Round Table Conferences (1930-33). The Committee consisted of 20 representatives of India and seven ...Read More »

After the three Round Table conferences, Government of India Act 1935 was implemented. Though it was not hailed by the All India Muslim league and the the Indian National Congress, two major parties of India did not hail it but the both participated the general elections held under the Government of India Act 1935 in the winter of 1936-37. The ...Read More »

Lahore Resolution 1940 is an important landmark in the history of Indo-Pak as it determined the path for the Muslims. Passed in the three-days annual meeting (March 22-24, 1940 at Minto Park Lahore) of All India Muslim League, Lahore Resolution led to the establishment of Pakistan after seven years. It was presided over by Mohammad Ali Jinnah and attended by ...Read More »

The Second World War put the British government into predicament because of the victories of Japan over Singapore (February 15, 1942), Rangoon (March 8, 1942) and Andaman (March 23, 1942). The British government found itself endangered and felt the need of the Indian people urgently. But the aggravated different political parties especially the Muslim League and the Congress were at ...Read More »

On July 17, 1944, Gandhi wrote a letter to Jinnah and requested to meet him. Jinnah, with the approval of the Muslim League, agreed to meet Gandhi in Bombay. The Talks lasted from September 19, 1944 to September 24, 1944. Jinnah presented the stance of the Muslim League while Gandhi told him that he had called upon him in a ...Read More »

The British government envisaged a plan to confer some more liberties to the Indians and the Lord Wavell, the Viceroy of India convened a meeting of all major political parties of India. On 25th of June 1945, the plan proposed: The government will reconstitute the Viceroy’s Executive Council consisting of wholly the Indians except that of Viceroy and the Commander-in-Chief. Dominion ...Read More »