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Trace the origin and growth of the Indian Muslim League.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Politics of Separatism

The All India Muslim League, founded in 1906 as a loyalist pressure group of the Muslim landed and service elite, travelled a long and uneven road before it could claim, by 1946, to be the sole spokesman of India's Muslims.

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  • Origins: The Simla Deputation and the Founding at Dacca, 1906
  • The Nationalist Interlude: Jinnah and the Lucknow Pact, 1916
  • Eclipse and Factional Drift, 1920s
  • Jinnah's Revival: From Elite Club to Mass Party, 1937–1940
  • Consolidation as Sole Spokesman, 1940–1946

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