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    The All India Muslim League was established in 1906 at the annual meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka. With nearly 3,000 delegates, it was the largest gathering of Muslims in India to that point. The League was proposed by Nawab Salim Ullah Khan as a political party to safeguard Muslim interests in India. Its first headquarters were established in Lucknow, and Sir Aga Khan was elected the inaugural president. The initial objectives of the Muslim League were to foster loyalty to the government among Muslims, protect Muslim political rights, and prevent tensions between Muslims and other groups in India.

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    The All India Muslim League was established in 1906 at the annual meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka. With nearly 3,000 delegates, it was the largest gathering of Muslims in India to that point. The League was proposed by Nawab Salim Ullah Khan as a political party to safeguard Muslim interests in India. Its first headquarters were established in Lucknow, and Sir Aga Khan was elected the inaugural president. The initial objectives of the Muslim League were to foster loyalty to the government among Muslims, protect Muslim political rights, and prevent tensions between Muslims and other groups in India.

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    The All India Muslim League was established in 1906 at the annual meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka. With nearly 3,000 delegates, it was the largest gathering of Muslims in India to that point. The League was proposed by Nawab Salim Ullah Khan as a political party to safeguard Muslim interests in India. Its first headquarters were established in Lucknow, and Sir Aga Khan was elected the inaugural president. The initial objectives of the Muslim League were to foster loyalty to the government among Muslims, protect Muslim political rights, and prevent tensions between Muslims and other groups in India.

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    The All India Muslim League was established in 1906 to protect and advance the political rights and interests of Muslims in India in response to growing Hindu nationalism and the influence of the Indian National Congress.

    The objectives of the Muslim League were to inculcate loyalty to the government among Muslims, protect and advance their political rights and interests, and represent their needs and aspirations to the government while preventing growth of ill will between Muslims and other groups.

    The intellectual class of Muslims wanted political representation and the Muslim masses needed a united platform. Western ideas of nationalism that were disseminated at universities also contributed to the emergence of Muslim nationalism in India.

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    On December 30 1906, the annual meeting of Muhammadan Educational Conference was held at Dhaka under the chairmanship of Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk. Almost 3,000 delegates attended the session making it the largest-ever representative gathering of Muslim India. For the first time the conference lifted its ban on political discussion, when Nawab Salim Ullah Khan presented a proposal for establish a political party to safeguard the interests of the Muslims; the All India Muslim League.

    Three factors had kept Muslims away from the Congress, Sir Syeds advice to the Muslims to give it a wide berth, Hindu agitation against the partition of Bengal and the Hindu religious revivalisms hostility towards the Muslims. The Muslims remained loyal to Sir Syeds advice but events were quickly changing the Indian scene and politics were being thrust on all sections of the population.

    But the main motivating factor was that the Muslims intellectual class wanted representation; the masses needed a platform on which to unite. It was the dissemination of western thought by John Locke, Milton and Thomas Paine, etc. at the M. A. O. College that initiated the emergence of Muslim nationalism.

    The headquarters of the All India Muslim League was established in Lucknow, and Sir Aga Khan was elected as its first president. Also elected were six vicepresidents, a secretary and two joint secretaries for a term of three years. The initial membership was 400, with members hailing proportionately from all provinces. Maulana Muhammad Ali Jouhar wrote the constitution of the League, known as the Green Book. Branches were also setup in other provinces. Syed Ameer Ali established a branch of the League in London in 1908, supporting the same objectives.

    Following were the objectives of the Muslim League:

    To inculcate among Muslims a feeling of loyalty to the government and to disabuse their minds of misunderstandings and misconceptions of its actions and intentions. To protect and advance the political rights and interests of the Muslims of India and to represent their needs and aspirations to the government from time to time. To prevent the growth of ill will between Muslims and other nationalities without compromising to its own purposes.

    Many Hindu historians and several British writers have alleged that the Muslim League was founded at official instigation. They argue that it was Lord Minto who inspired the establishment of a Muslim organization so as to divide the Congress and to minimize the strength of the Indian Freedom Movement. But these statements are not supported by evidence. Contrary to this, the widely accepted view is that the Muslim League was basically established to protect and advance the Muslim interests and to combat the growing influence of the Indian National Congress. This article was last updated on Sunday, June 01, 2003

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