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My memories of Britain’s long and tortured exit 1931-47
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... unfulfilled since they were all jailed within days of stepping foot in British India. However, in mid-1943, I saw the Muslim League leader M.A. Jinnah, who never went to jail and who wanted to carve out ... Saturday, 27 April 2019 -
From Bannu to Corning – Notwithstanding the trauma of Partition
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... do much against big mobs with petrol bombs, big knives, a few pistols and rifles supervised by police or Muslim League Guards. At the border in September 1947, this Muslim JCO ordered the gate to be ... Friday, 20 October 2017 -
Chapter 6: Beyond the family: Politics in Pre-Independence Erode
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... given yellow, Muslim League some colour (I forget it now), Justice Party green, etc. Many provinces elected the Congress Party. Madras was one of them. C. Rajagopalachari was made the Chief Minister ... Sunday, 01 November 2015 -
Averting the Horrors of the 1943 Bengal Famine
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... being enacted in the provincial legislative assembly for the previous five years. A K Fazlul Haq's KPP (Krishak Praja Party) had formed a government in Bengal with the Muslim League because the Indian ... Thursday, 03 July 2014 -
Living through the 1947 Partition of Bengal -1
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... job with the District Board as the District Health Officer in 1944, after the board administration had been taken over by the Muslim League in 1940. He had stuck on for four years but could not tolerate ... Tuesday, 01 July 2014 -
Living through the 1947 Partition of Bengal -2
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
Tapas Sen was born in Kolkata (1934), and brought up in what now constitutes Bangladesh. He migrated to India in 1948, and joined the National Defence Academy in January 1950. He was commissioned as ... Tuesday, 01 July 2014 -
Uncle Lawrence in the 1946 Naval Mutiny
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... over them. Within minutes, the flags of the Congress Party, the Muslim League, and the Communist Party of India were hoisted on the Talwar. The Union Jack was joyously burnt. Pannu Khan radioed all ships ... Wednesday, 26 March 2014 -
The Thrill of the 1937 Election
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... India into the War without consulting them. Among most of us, it led to a feeling of reversion to square one. Jinnah rejoiced and made his Muslim League celebrate, all over India, the exit of Congress ... Wednesday, 08 May 2013 -
Jinnah Fourteen Points: 1929
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
Editor's note:In a meeting of the Council of All India Muslim League on March 28, 1929, Quaid-i-Azam Jinnah termed the 1928 Motilal Nehru Report, available here, as a Hindu document, but considered simply ... Saturday, 22 September 2012 -
Lucknow Pact between Congress and Muslim League 1916
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
Editor’s Note: The Lucknow Pact was an agreement between the Indian National Congress, led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and the All-India Muslim League, led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. The agreement was adopted ... Saturday, 22 September 2012 -
The Demand for Dominion Status: 1928 Motilal Nehru Report
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... on Communal Unity in conjunction with those passed by the Hindu Mahasabha, the Muslim League, the Sikh League and the other political organisations represented at the All Parties Conference at Delhi and ... Friday, 21 September 2012 -
My Memories of Lahore and the Partition
Category: Stories/Life Back Then
... the non-cooperation movement against the Raj to compel the British to move out of India. When the talks between the Congress, the Muslim League and the British broke down, the call for Independence accompanied ... Sunday, 16 September 2012 -
The Demand for Pakistan 23 March 1940
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
Editor's note: The All India Muslim League met in Lahore in March 1940. The League adopted a resolution that has become known as the Lahore Resolution. March 23, the date on which this Resolution was adopted, ... Monday, 07 May 2012 -
The Idea of Pakistan 1930
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... University, NewYork. http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html Sir Muhammad Iqbal's 1930 Presidential Address to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League, Allahabad, ... Monday, 09 April 2012 -
The Demand for Pakistan - Now or Never 1933
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... put forward by Doctor Mohammed Iqbal in his Presidential address to the All-India Muslim League in 1930. While he proposed the amalgamation of the provinces into a single state forming a unit of the All-India ... Sunday, 18 March 2012 -
Acceptance of India's Partition by Indian leaders - June 3 1947
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... that the Muslim League were going to get Pakistan by force. Mr Jinnahsaid that he had deliberately refrained from criticizing Mr. Gandhi in public. The Viceroy said that he thought that this particular ... Saturday, 18 February 2012 -
Acceptance of India's Partition by Indian leaders - June 2 1947
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... leaders represent the Indian National Congress (Congress), another three represent the Muslim League (League), and the seventh one represents the Sikh community. The three leaders representing the Congress ... Saturday, 18 February 2012 -
The Heroes of the INA Trials
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... law. This was at a time when the Muslim League, led by the implacable Jinnah, was on the threshold of winning Pakistan through the division of Mother India on Hindu-Muslim lines of demarcation. But the ... Saturday, 14 January 2012 -
My Memories of M A Jinnah
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... for which he was famous. But it was a different Jinnah in the evening, when he came to address a public meeting in Baker Park (now Subhas Park) arranged by the local Muslim League. I came to this ... Saturday, 12 March 2011 -
My Memories of Sardar Patel
Category: Stories/Major Events Pre-1950
... the Home portfolio in the Interim Government for his Muslim League, and the Viceroy endorsed the demand, Patel firmly said "No." And the League had to settle for the Finance portfolio. One of Patel's ... Wednesday, 28 July 2010