President of Pakistan Muslim League
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All-India Muslim League
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| Presiding Leader(s) |
Muhammad Ali Jinnah A. K. Fazlul Huq Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy Sir Feroz Khan Noon Khwaja Nazimuddin Liaquat Ali Khan Khaliq-uz-Zaman Mohammad Ali Bogra |
| Founder |
Khwaja Salimullah Vikar-ul-Mulk Khan Bahadur Ghulam Mustafa Chowdhury Syed Amir Ali Syed Nabiullah |
| Founded | 30 December 1906 at Dacca, British raj (now in Dhaka, Bangladesh) |
| Dissolved | 14th August 1947 |
| Succeeded by | Muslim League in Pakistan, Awami League in Bangladesh and Indian Union Muslim League in India |
| Headquarters | Lucknow |
| Newspaper | Dawn |
| Student wing | AIMSF |
| Paramilitary wing | Khaki |
| Ideology |
Pan-Islamism conservatism Two-nation theory Civil rights for Muslims in India |
| Religion | Islam |
| International affiliation | All–India Muslim League (London Chapter) |
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| Crescent and Star | |
The All-India Muslim League (popularised as Muslim League) was a political party established during the early years of the 20th century in the British Indian Empire. Its strong advocacy for the establishment of a separate Muslim-majority nation-state, Pakistan, successfully led to the partition of British India in 1947 by the British Empire. The party arose out of a literary movement begun at The Aligarh Muslim University in which Syed Ahmad Khan was a central figure. Sir Syed had founded, in 1886, the Muhammadan Educational Conference, but a self-imposed ban prevented it from discussing politics. At its December 1906 conference in Dhaka, attended by 3,000 delegates, the conference removed the ban and adopted a resolution to form an All Indian Muslim League political party. Its original political goal was to define and advance the Indian Muslim's civil rights and to provide protection to the upper and gentry class of Indian Muslims. From 1906–30s, the party worked on its organizational structure, its credibility in Muslim communities all over the British Indian Empire, and lacked as a mass organisation but represented the landed and commercial Muslim interests of the United Provinces (today's Uttar Pradesh).
Following in the 1930s, the idea of a separate nation-state and influential philosopher Sir Iqbal's vision of uniting the four provinces in North-West British India further supported the rationale of two-nation theory. Constitutional struggle of Jinnah and political struggle of founding fathers, the Muslim League played a decisive role in World War II in the 1940s and as the driving force behind the division of India along religious lines and the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state in 1947. The events leading the World War II, the Congress effective protest against the United Kingdom unilaterally involving India in the war without consulting with the Indian people; the Muslim League went on to support the British war efforts, and later agitated against the Congress with the cry of "Islam in Danger".
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