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India, c1914–48: The Road to Independence

The Muslim League

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Recall questions on the Khilafat movement and its collapse, the idea of separateness, Jinnah's changing position, the Fourteen Points, and the League's early weakness.

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Key term

Who was the leading Muslim League politician?

Key term

Which Muslim movement was linked to the Ottoman Caliphate?

Who and when

What idea did the Muslim League increasingly stress?

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    Who was the leading Muslim League politician?

    Model answer

    Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

  2. 2

    Which Muslim movement was linked to the Ottoman Caliphate?

    Model answer

    The Khilafat Movement.

  3. 3

    What idea did the Muslim League increasingly stress?

    Model answer

    The 'separateness' of India's Muslims.

  4. 4

    What did Muhammad Iqbal propose in his Allahabad address of 1930?

    Model answer

    Speaking as Muslim League president, he argued Indian Muslims were a nation and called for a Muslim state in the north west, an early form of the Pakistan idea.

  5. 5

    Why did the Khilafat movement collapse?

    Model answer

    Ataturk abolished the Caliphate himself in 1924, removing its object, and the alliance with Congress broke down amid communal rioting.

  6. 6

    What was the effect of the Khilafat movement's failure?

    Model answer

    It ended the brief period of joint action and was followed by serious communal violence, after which Hindu-Muslim political cooperation never fully recovered.

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