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All-India Muslim League, 1906. The first meeting of the All-India Muslim League, in Dhaka (now the capital of Bangladesh), on December 30, 1906.

Muslim League

Indian Muslim group
Also known as: All India Muslim League
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Muslim League, political group that led the movement calling for a separate Muslim nation to be created at the time of the partition of British India (1947). The Muslim League was founded in 1906 to safeguard the rights of Indian Muslims. At first the league was encouraged by the British and was generally favorable to their rule, but the organization adopted self-government for India as its goal in 1913. For several decades the league and...

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