NASEEB NOTES OF PAKISTAN STUDIES FOR GENERAL AND COMPETITIVE EXAMS Dehli Muslim Proposals, 1927 Background > Lucknow pact was criticized by both sides. > Failure of Khilafat Movement. > Shudhi and Sanghatan Movements created communal riots. > Rise in the communal riots, 117 incidents were reported from 1923 to 1927. > Approximately 650 people were Killed and 16000 people were injured. > Quaid-e-Azam stressed for Hindu-Muslim unity in the Lahore session of All-India Muslim League, 1924. Rise of Hindu Mahasaba (All-India Hindu Grand Assembly), ideologies of Hindutva, Hindu Nationalism, Akhand Bharat (Undivided India) > Hindu Mahasaba opposed the separate electorates. > Dehli session of All-India Muslim League, 1926; Quaid-e-Azam again stressed for Hindu-Muslim unity. > Congress president, Srinivasa lyengar talked to Quaid-e-Azam about the Hindu-Muslim Unity in 1926. > Motilal Nehru, in 1927, requested Quaid-e-Azam to give the demand of separate electorate and all other demands would be accepted. Meeting of the Muslim Leadership > Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah invited 30 prominent Muslims leaders for a meeting at Weston Hotel, Deh > The meeting was held on 24"" March, 1927 and the issue of separate electorates was discussed, > Muslims, on request of Quaid-e-Azam, agreed to give up the demand of separate electorates. > For giving separate electorates, Quaid-e-Azam presented four demands which came to be known as Dehli Muslim Proposals. Dehli Muslim Proposals > Sindh should be separated from Bombay presidency and constituted as a separate province. > Reforms should be introduced in NWFP and Balochistan on the footings of other provinces. > Representation in the legislative assemblies of Punjab and Bengal should be according to population. > One-third seats should be reserved for the Muslims in the Central Legislature. Congress and Hindu Reaction > Congress accepted and endorsed Dehli Muslim Proposals in its Bombay session on 15" May, 1927. > In months, Congress rejects Dehli Muslim Proposals in its Madras session on 30" December, 1927. > Hindu Mahasaba said only joint electorates are acceptable and all other demands are unacceptable. Aftermath > Sir Muhammad Shafi opposed the Dehli Muslim Proposal and favour separate electorate. > Muslim League was divided into two groups, Jinnah League and Shafi League. www.facebook.com/naseebnotes (03138330003,