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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 majoriry as in the north-western and eastern vzones of India should be grouped to constitute "Independent States", in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign. Analyse the reasons aspects of the Muslim League Resolution of 1940.

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Solution :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. Howerer, the-reseltion never mentioned partition or Pakistan.
Muslim League Resolution of 1940:
(i) They WANTED autonomous for Muslims and saveteign.zones.for Muslims
(ii) They wanted GEOGRAPHICALLY contiguous units demarcated into regions
(iii) 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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