1905 – 1940 Events
The Struggle For Independence
1905 – 1919
The Massacre of Jallianwala Bagh
After the Lucknow Pact of 1916 both Hindus and Muslims started their struggle for the self-rule for India. It was ...
Kanpur Mosque Incident
In 1913 the heavy toll of life taken by indiscriminate firing on a Muslim mob protesting against the demolition of ...
First World War
The First World War lasted over four years from 1914 to the end of 1918. Germany and its allies Turkey, ...
Partition of Bengal
Finding the Bengal Presidency too large for one governor to administer, in 1905 the English decided to redraw its boundaries ...
Montague-Chelmsford Reforms
In World War I, the British claimed that they stood for the protection of democracy around the world. Thus the ...
Khilafat Movement
The Lucknow pact showed that it was possible for middle-class, English-educated Muslims and Hindus to arrive at an amicable settlement ...
The Lucknow Pact
When All India Muslim League came into existence, it was a moderate organization with its basic aim to establish friendly ...
Minto-Morley Reforms
In 1906, Lord Morley, the Secretary of State for Indian Affairs, announced in the British parliament that his government wanted ...
Establishment of All India Muslim League
On December 30 1906, the annual meeting of Muhammadan Educational Conference was held at Dhaka under the chairmanship of Nawab ...
Simla Deputation
When Lord Minto was appointed as the Viceroy on India in 1905, new reforms were indicated in which the elected ...
1920 – 1932
Quaid-i-Azam and the Reorganization of Muslim League
The Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was thoroughly disappointed by the anti Muslim attitude of the Indian National ...
The Khaksar Movement
The Khaksar Movement was a paramilitary organization, which was introduced by Allama Inayatullah Mashriqi in a chaotic situation of the ...
The Ahrar Movement (Majlis-i-Ahrar-i-Islam)
A number of nationalist Muslims of Punjab, mainly religious leaders, called themselves “Ahrars” who organized Majlis-i-Ahrar-i-Islam. They were former members ...
The Unionist Party
Mian Fazl-i-Hussain and Chhotu Ram laid the foundation of the Punjab National Unionist Party in 1923. It was originated by ...
Khudai Khidmatgar Movement
Khudai Khidmatgar Movement was organized by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan popularly known as Bacha khan, on a non-violence approach to ...
Hijrat Movement
The Hijrat Movement was a by-product of the Khilafat Movement. In the summer of 1920 suggestions were made by the ...
The Communal Award
When the Indian leadership failed to come up with a constitutional solution of the communal issue, the British Prime Minister ...
Round Table Conferences
The Indian political community received the Simon Commission Report issued in June 1930 with great resentment. Different political parties gave ...
Allahabad Address
Several Muslim leaders and thinkers having insight into the Muslim-Hindu situation proposed the separation of Muslim India. However, Allama Muhammad ...
All Parties Muslim Conference
The immediate result of the publication of the Nehru Report was that Muslims of all shades of opinion united in ...
Fourteen Points of M. A. Jinnah
A positive aspect of Nehru Report was that it resulted in the unity of divided Muslim groups. In a meeting ...
Nehru Report
The Government of India Act 1919 was essentially transitional in character. Under Section 84 of the said Act, a statutory ...
Delhi Muslim Proposals
Considering separate electorates to be the main hindrance in improving Hindu-Muslim relations, Quaid-i-Azam proposed that if the Hindus agreed to ...
Simon Commission
The Government of India Act of 1919 was essentially transitional in character. Under Section 84 of the said Act, a ...
1935 – 1940
Shaheed Gunj Mosque Incident
The Shahidganj mosque, located in Landa bazaar outside Delhi gate at Lahore, was considered as the holy place for both ...
The Ideology of Pakistan: Two-Nation Theory
The ideology of Pakistan stems from the instinct of the Muslim community of South Asia to maintain their individuality by ...
Rule of Congress Ministries
The Government of India Act of 1935 was practically implemented in 1937. The provincial elections were held in the winter ...
Government of India Act 1935
After the failure of the Third Round Table Conference, the British government gave the Joint Select Committee the task of ...