About the Topic: Demand for Pakistan is an important Modern History topic covering the Lahore Resolution of 1940, the Two-Nation Theory, the role of the Muslim League and the political developments leading to the partition of India. Practice MCQ Questions with answers and explanations.
Who among the following had primarily used the word ‘Pakistan’ for separate State for Indian Muslims?
Correct Answer:
(D)
Chaudhary Rehmat Ali and his friends
The word Pakistan was primarily used by the student of Cambridge University Chaudhary Rehmat Ali in his letter entitled “Now or Never.”
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The idea of a separate Nation for Muslims was given by:
Correct Answer:
(C) Sir Mohammad Iqbal
The poet and political Philosopher Mohammad Iqbal is considered as the originator of the idea of the separate Muslim nation. Inspired by the spirit of Pan-Islam in All India Muslim League at Allahabad Session in 1930 Muhammad Iqbal said “ I would like to see Punjab, the North-West Frontier Province, Sindh and Balochistan amalgamated into a single state. Self-Government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim state appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.
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Who among the following first put forward the proposal for a separate Muslim state in India?
Correct Answer:
(D)
Mohammad Iqbal
During his landmark Presidential address to the annual session of the All-India Muslim League at Allahabad in 1930, Iqbal declared Hindus and Muslims to be two separate Nations in the light of the religious, social, cultural and historical context.
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Who among the following led the movement for the separate State Pakistan?
Correct Answer:
(D)
Md. Ali Jinnah
From March 22 to 24, 1940, the session of Muslim League was held at Lahore in the Presidentship of Mohammad Ali Jinnah. In this session, he demanded a separate Muslim Nation apart from India. Jinnah said in his speech that he would not accept anything other than a separate Muslim Nation.
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Who of the following called Mohammad Ali Jinnah as ‘Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity’?
Correct Answer:
(A) Sarojini Naidu
In 1919 when Jinnah was giving testimony in front of Parliament Select Committee, then he was asked: “Are you saying this as a virtue of the Indian Nationalist”? In reply, he firmly said, “yes, I am saying this as a virtue of Indian Nationalist.” After that, Major Oksbergi asked, “means you want to finish the discrimination between Muslim and Hindu at the earliest?” In answer, Jinnah said- ‘yes, I will be the happiest person when that day comes.’ For these Nationalist views and to compromising Muslim League and Congress Sarojini Naidu hailed him “Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity.”
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The remark ‘Nehru is a patriot, while Jinnah is a politician’ was made by:
Correct Answer:
(C) Sir Mohammad Iqbal
The first Prime Minister of India Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru in Page 352 of his book “Discovery of India mentioned that Muhammad Iqbal during a meeting with him remarked” you (Nehru) are a patriot, while Jinnah is a politician.
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Which of the following statements is not true about Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
Correct Answer:
(D)
He always had dairy.
Jinnah was a supporter of two-nation theory. While chairing the Lahore Session of Muslim League between 22-24 March, 1940, he demanded a separate Muslim Nation apart from India. Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan, Fazlul-Haq, and Khaliquzzaman played an important role in preparing an outline for the proposal of Pakistan. Mohammad Ali Jinnah was not a supporter of Non-Cooperation Movement, so he did not participate in this Movement.
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A separate homeland for Muslims found for the first time a definite expression :
Correct Answer:
(A) In the Presidential Speech of Iqbal at the Allahabad Session of Muslim League (1930).
A separate homeland for Muslims for the first time found a definite expression in 1930 at Allahabad Session of the Muslim League in the Presidential address of Mohammad Iqbal.(source:- R.C. Majoomdar- The history and culture of the Indian people: struggle for freedom, page No.- 613) While the student of Cambridge University, Chaudhary Rehmat Ali had primarily used the word Pakistan in 1933 in his pamphlet named “Now or Never; Are we to live or perish forever?” while in Lahore Session held between 22-24 March, 1940 the Muslim League formally demanded Pakistan as an Independent and Sovereign State.
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The resolution demanding the formation of Pakistan was passed by Muslim league in the year of –
Correct Answer:
(B) 1940
On March 23, 1940, the Muslim League passed the famous resolution of ‘Pakistan’ at Lahore Session. The Resolution declared: “No constitutional plan would be workable or acceptable to the Muslims unless contiguous geographical units are demarcated into regions which should be so constituted with such territorial readjustments as may be necessary. That the areas in which the Muslims are numerically in the majority as in the North-Western and Eastern zones of India should be grouped to constitute Independent States in which the constituent units shall be autonomous and sovereign”.
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Who has moved a resolution for the creation of Pakistan is the Muslim League Session of 1940:
Correct Answer:
(D)
Khaliquzzaman
The Annual Session of Muslim League was held at Lahore between 22-24, 1940 under which the famous Lahore Resolution was passed and it was demanded that a separate Muslim Nation ‘Pakistan’ should be formed apart from India. This resolution was presented by Fazal and approved by Khaliquzzaman. Sir Sikander Hayat Khan, Fazal-ul-Haq and Khaliquzzaman had played an important role in preparing its outline.
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The Muslim League Annual Session which gave effect to Jinnah’s Two Nation Theory was held in :
Correct Answer:
(A) Lahore
The annual session of the Muslim League was held in Lahore between 22-24 March 1940. The two-nation theory of Jinnah was recognized at Lahore. The draft related to this resolution was prepared by Sikandar Hayat Khan and Fazal-ul-Haq presented the resolution on March 23, 1940.