Importance Of Lahore Resolution: According To K.K.

Aziz:With the adoption of the Pakistan ideal by the Muslim League in 1940, Muslim nationalism had come into its own. It had taken the Muslims three quarters of a century finally to decide what they wanted. They had tried everything; a revolt in 1857, friendship with Britain, opposition to the Congress, extremist agitation, co-operation with the Congress, belligerent neutrality, negotiations, appeals and threats. First as dethroned rulers they resented the overlordship of the British. Then as a weak minority they sought friendship with the governing power. Then for a time they made a common cause with the Hindus and led the Khilafat agitation. Then once again their separatism came to the surface and they fought for communal safeguards. When these safeguards failed to give them the protection they needed or expected the latent nationalism triumphed. The march of history had made a nation of a community. No longer did they eat out their heart in sullen impotence, trusting in the beneficence of the British or the goodwill of the Hindus. To the Congress claim that India was a national state, that it was neither plural nor multinational the Muslims answered with the brand new idea of a separate Muslims nationalism.