Pakistan resolution 1940 Lahore resolution

1. Pakistan Resolution
23 March 1940
Group Representative:
 Muhammad Shahbaz
Group members :
 Hafiz Ahmad Bilal
 Naeem Shahid
 Idrees Nawaz
 Gayoor Abbas
 Husnain
 Asad
 Ali Raza

2. Contents
 Objectives
 Main leaders of the Muslim League Annual Session
 Reasons
 Main contents of resolution
 Significant moments
 Importance of Lahore Resolution
 Reaction on Lahore resolution
 Conclusion

3. Objectives
 To understand the circumstances in which
the ‘Pakistan Resolution’ was moved and
passed.
 To study the main content of the resolution
 To study the Reaction on Lahore resolution

4. Annual session of Muslim league
23 March1940
LiqatAli Khan Presented the
annual report of Muslim
League
Resolution moved
byMolvifazal–Ul-Haq
Resolution seconded by
Ch.khaliquzaman

5. Quaid's session
Session presided by Quaid i Azam
From different regions
 The Resolution was seconded by Maulana Zafar Ali
Khan from Punjab,
 Sardar Aurangzeb from the NWFP.
 Sir Abdullah Haroon from Sindh, and
 Qazi Esa from Baluchistan, along with many other

6. Reasons for passing Pakistan Resolution
 Two nation theory ( Sir Syed Ahmed khan )
 Muslim quest for political, economic and cultural safeguard
 Allam Iqbal and Chaduhary Rehmat Ali :The idea of separate homeland
 The experience of Congress Rule (1937-1939) compelled the Muslims
to launch the movement for separate homeland.
 The Muslims’ disappointment from the Congress leadership decided to
open a new phase of history.
 Quaid-i-Azam’s article in Time and Tide concluded that Muslims are a
nation. No Constitution can be enforced by ignoring Muslims. His
comments on March 13, 1940 are remarkable: “If some satisfactory
settlement cannot be found for Muslims in united India, the Muslim will
have to demand for division of the country.”

7. Significant Moments of Resolution

8. Resolution
 They decided that the Federal system under Government of
India Act, 1935 was not acceptable for the Muslims.
 No revised constitutional plan would be acceptable unless it
was framed with their approval and consent.
 Adjacent units where Muslims are in a majority, as in
Northwest and East, should be constituted as Independent
States where the constituent units will be autonomous and
sovereign.
 Protection of minorities would be given priority

10. Importance of Resolution
 The passing of the resolution was a huge step for the Muslim League.
 The Pakistan Resolution offered a fair and attractive solution to the Problem,
the Muslims had grappled with constant strain of being refer to second-class
status.
 Had Given the enthusiasm to Muslims
 This resolution was passed unanimously and soon became known as
‘Pakistan Resolution’.
 The Muslims of subcontinent had finally got their rallying call.
 The years of oppression from British and Hindus were to be put behind them
and it was ML which was undisputed leader of Pakistan Movement.
 It joined all the Muslims together to demand for a separate homeland.

11. Reaction on Lahore resolution
1. The Hindu press published news that the Muslim league
had a dangerous design to disintegrate the country by the
creation of Pakistan.
2. Congress, which was dreaming to establish ‘Hindu Raj’ had
manipulated Lahore resolution as ;
i. ML creating problems in the way of independence and
wanted to retain the British predominance over the
subcontinent.
ii. Raised slogan that people of India wanted to form one
United Nation
iii. Congress hostility grew towards Muslim league.

12. 1. Gandhi instigate prejudice against partition by
calling it the ‘vivisection of motherland’ ‘cutting up
a baby into two halves’
(Anwar.M,PakistanStudies,volume1,whiterose publisher Lahore,pg
99)
2. The British’s did not oppose it openly because it
was based on Two Nation Theory and British had
accepted Muslims a separate nation on various
occasions .
3. World war II had put the Britain in a very critical
situation. She did not want to invite trouble by

13. Conclusion
 The British had been compelled to recognize the
Muslim League as the sole representative of the
Muslims of India by 1940 and Quaid-i-Azam
Mohammad Ali Jinnah as its undisputed leader.
 The resolution passed in Lahore on March 23,
created a scare in the minds of the Congress and
the Hindus. They could see that the Muslim League
had now openly advocated the division of India into
"Independent States”

14.  He, Quaid knew that without a well-defined goal
that could be understood even by the simplest
Muslim, there could be no real awakening of the
Muslims. The Pakistan Resolution gave them a
legible, objective and reachable goal: Pakistan.

15. Expected question
 Explain the reasons for the passage of the Lahore Resolution in
March 1940.
 Why was Pakistan resolution passed?
 How important was Pakistan resolution in the history of Pakistan
movement from 1920-1940?Explain your answer
 Why was Lahore Resolution passed in 1940?Explain the content
of Lahore resolution .
 How successful were attempts to find solutions to the problems
facing the subcontinent in the years 1940 to 1947?

16.  Thank you !