Read the report of a round-table discussion held in London in 1930. Delegates debated how India could be governed after constitutional reform. One Muslim po...
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Read the report of a round-table discussion held in London in 1930. Delegates debated how India could be governed after constitutional reform. One Muslim poet and philosopher argued that the north-western Muslim-majority regions should be combined into a self-governing unit. His statement later became an important source for historians studying the idea of Pakistan.
(a) Identify the speaker associated with this proposal. [1]
(b) Explain why his Allahabad address was important to the Pakistan Movement. [3]
Answer Details
(a) Allama Muhammad Iqbal / Muhammad Iqbal [1] (b) It proposed a united Muslim-majority state or autonomous unit in north-west India [1]; it gave an intellectual and political expression to Muslim nationhood [1]; it influenced later League thinking about a separate homeland, though it did not set out the final 1940 plan [1].
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