muhammad ali jinnah played an important role in the making of lucknow pact.
muhammad ali jinnah played an important role in the making of lucknow pact.
who played an important role in the making of lucknow pact?
muhammad ali jinnah
the 1916 lucknow session of the congress was also the venue of an unanticipated mutual effort by the congress and the muslim league, the occasion for which was provided by the wartime partnership between germany and turkey. since the turkish sultan, or "khalifah", had also sporadically claimed guardianship of the islamic holy sites of mecca, medina, and jerusalem, and since the british and their allies were now in conflict with turkey, doubts began to increase among some indian muslims about the "religious neutrality" of the british, doubts that had already surfaced as a result of the reunification of bengal in 1911, a decision that was seen as ill-disposed to muslims. in the lucknow pact, the league joined the congress in the proposal for greater self-government that was campaigned for by tilak and his supporters; in return, the congress accepted separate electorates for muslims in the provincial legislatures as well as the imperial legislative council. in 1916, the muslim league had anywhere between 500 and 800members and did not yet have the wider following among indian muslims that it enjoyed in later years; in the league itself, the pact did not have unanimous backing, having largely been negotiated by a group of "young party" muslims from the united provinces (up), most prominently, two brothers mohammad and shaukat ali, who had embraced the pan-islamic cause; however, it did have the support of a young lawyer from bombay, muhammad ali jinnah, who was later to rise to leadership roles in both the league and the indian independence movement. in later years, as the full ramifications of the pact unfolded, it was seen as benefiting the muslim minority "élites" of provinces like up and bihar more than the muslim majorities of punjab and bengal; nonetheless, at the time, the "lucknow pact" was an important milestone in nationalistic agitation and was seen as such by the british.
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the lucknow pact was an agreement that reached between the indian national congress and the muslim league at the joint session of both the parties held in lucknow in december 1916. through the pact, the two parties agreed to allow overrepresentation to religious minorities in the provincial legislatures. the muslim league leaders agreed to join the congress movement demanding indian autonomy. scholars cite this as an example of a consociational practice in indian politics. mohammad ali jinnah and mahatma gandhi also participated in this event.









































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