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The resolution that demanded a separate state for Muslims was?

The resolution that demanded a separate state for Muslims was? Correct Answer Lahore Resolution

Lahore Resolution:

  • This resolution demanded a separate state for Muslims and was passed at Minto Park in Lahore where the Muslim League held their 3-day annual meeting in 1940.
  • In March 1940, in the League's annual three-day session in Lahore, Jinnah gave a two-hour speech in English, in which were laid out the arguments of the Two-nation theory, stating, in the words of historians Talbot and Singh, that "Muslims and Hindus…were irreconcilably opposed monolithic religious communities and as such, no settlement could be imposed that did not satisfy the aspirations of the former."
  • On the last day of its session, the League passed the Lahore Resolution, sometimes also called as the "Pakistan Resolution," demanding that "the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in the 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." 

 Key Points

Quit India Movement:
  • In August 1942, Gandhiji started the 'Quit India Movement and decided to launch a mass civil disobedience movement 'Do or Die' call to force the British to leave India.
  • The movement was followed; nonetheless, large-scale violence was directed at railway stations, telegraph offices, government buildings, and other emblems and institutions of colonial rule. 
  • There were widespread acts of sabotage, and the government-held Gandhi responsible for these acts of violence, suggesting that they were a deliberate act of Congress policy.
  • However, all the prominent leaders were arrested, the Congress was banned and the police and army were brought out to suppress the movement.

Direct Action Day:

  • After the Cabinet Mission broke down, Jinnah proclaimed 16 August 1946 Direct Action Day, with the stated goal of peacefully highlighting the demand for a Muslim homeland in British India. 
  • However, on the morning of the 16th, armed Muslim gangs gathered at the Ochterlony Monument in Calcutta to hear Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, the League's Chief Minister of Bengal, who, in the words of historian Yasmin Khan, "if he did not explicitly incite violence certainly gave the crowd the impression that they could act with impunity, that neither the police nor the military would be called out and that the ministry would turn a blind eye to any action they unleashed in the city."
  • Followed by this inciting of violence, riots with Hindus and Muslims clashing with each other for several days and resulted in the death of about 4000 people. This was also known as the Great Calcutta Massacre.

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