A newspaper photograph caption from Lahore, March 1940, describes thousands of delegates listening as the Muslim League considered its future in India. The ...
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A newspaper photograph caption from Lahore, March 1940, describes thousands of delegates listening as the Muslim League considered its future in India. The resolution stated that Muslim-majority areas in the north-west and east should be grouped into independent states. A journalist asks which meeting marked the clearest change from seeking safeguards within India to demanding a separate political future.
(a) Identify the resolution passed at this meeting. [1]
(b) Explain why the resolution was a turning point in the Pakistan Movement. [1]
Answer Details
(a) Lahore Resolution / Pakistan Resolution [1] (b) It committed the Muslim League to separate independent Muslim-majority states/homeland rather than only constitutional safeguards within a united India [1].
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