discuss the emergence of Muslim League in
India
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The Muslim League was an important feature in the Indian struggle for independence. One of the most prominent faces of the League, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, became a champion of the Two-Nation Theory which ultimately paved the way for the country’s partition. Read more about the Muslim League in this article for the UPSC exam. It is an important part of modern history for the IAS exam.
What happened?
On 30 December 1906, the All-India Muslim League (AIML), popularly known as the Muslim League was founded in Dhaka, British India (now in Bangladesh).
Background
The communal idea that the Muslims are a separate nation was sown into the Indian political ethos first by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, a philosopher and Muslim reformist.
Although he wanted Muslims to get educated and think in a scientific temper, he suggested aligning with the British rather than rebel against them, as most beneficial for the community. He had founded the Muhammadan Educational Conference in 1886 but this organisation stayed away from politics and desisted from even discussing it as per its own code.
On 30 December 1906, around 3000 delegates attended a conference of the Muhammadan Educational Conference at Dhaka in which the ban on politics was removed and a motion was moved to form the AIML. The name was proposed by Nawab Khawaja Sir Salimullah Bahadur and seconded by Hakim Ajmal Khan.
The AIML was the first Muslim political party of India.
The idea was that the Congress Party was only catering to the needs of the Hindus. This was an erroneous idea since the Congress always meant to include every community of the country and had many Muslim leaders as members.
The founders of the Muslim League were: Khwaja Salimullah, Vikar-ul-Mulk, Syed Amir Ali, Syed Nabiullah, Khan Bahadur Ghulam and Mustafa Chowdhury.
The first Honorary President of the League was Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (Aga Khan III).
The AIML was essentially a party of educated elite Muslims, at least in the beginning.
The party’s chief aim was to promote and secure civil rights for Muslims. It espoused loyalty to the British government as a means to achieve more political and civil rights.
The objectives of the league were:
To create among Muslims the feelings of loyalty towards the British Government.
To safeguard the political rights of the Muslims and to convey the same to the government.
To prevent the rise of prejudice against other communities of India among the Muslims.
Answer:
it evolved due to some problem because of following reasons.
1. they think that muslims are minority in india and they will be ruined by hindus
2. muslium league want to support indian muslims
3. nehru refuge to colige with muslim league
4. jinna want to create muslim as suppiror.