97-The All India Muslim League 

एक दुखी परिवार-97

A Party of Muslim diaspora.

The All India Muslim League was founded by the All India Mohammedan Educational Conference at Dhaka (now Bangladesh), in 1906, in the context of the circumstances that were generated over the partition of Bengal in 1905. 

Being a political party to secure the interests of the Muslim diaspora (any religious group living as a minority among people of the prevailing religion)  in British India. 

The Muslim League played a decisive role during the 1940s in the Indian independence movement and developed into the driving force behind the creation of Pakistan in the Indian subcontinent. 

But when Muslim league passed Pakistan resolution , based on Two Nation theory of Jinnah, Nationalist leaders like Maulana Azad and others stood against it. 

All-India Jamhur Muslim League was formed parallel to Muslim League with Raja of Mahmoodabad (a close associate of Jinnah) as its president and Dr.Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi, its general secretary.

In 1906, Muhammad Ali Jinnah joined the Indian National Congress, which was the largest Indian political organization. 

Like most of the Congress at the time, Jinnah did not favour outright independence, considering British influences on education, law, culture and industry as beneficial to India. 

Jinnah became a member of the sixty-member Imperial Legislative Council. The council had no real power or authority, and included a large number of un-elected pro-Raj loyalists and Europeans. 

Nevertheless, Jinnah was instrumental in the passing of the Child Marriages Restraint Act, the legitimization of the Muslimwaqf (religious endowments) and was appointed to the Sandhurst committee, which helped establish the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun.

During the First World War, Jinnah joined other Indian moderates , in supporting the British war effort, hoping that Indians would be rewarded with political freedoms.

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