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Negotiating the Lucknow Pact

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Hugh F. Owen
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Despite the bitter legacy of clashes between India's Hindus and Muslims since the 1880's, the alienation of Muslims from the Indian National Congress, which was reflected in die rise of the Muslim League, was reversed as the result of a number of political developments between 1910 and 1916 and through the efforts of leading personalities on both sides, most notably Jinnah, Wazir Hasan, Gokhale and Mrs. Annie Besant. Nationalist Muslims, some of whom were already prominent in Congress, increasingly captured control of key positions in the Muslim League, and linked hands with Congress' goal of secularism and its claims to represent all Indians. A series of developments and meetings led to the compromise of the Lucknow Pact. This prepared the way for Hindu-Muslim cooperation in agitational politics, 1919–22. Simultaneously, however, the negotiations for the Pact alienated important groups, notably Hindu groups in the Punjab and Bengal, and encouraged Hindu and Muslim communalists to build up communal organisations asserting and working for the separate interests of tJieir respective communities. This helped to prepare the way for the communal clashes in the 1920's.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , May 1972 , pp. 561 - 587
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85 The number and principal members from each province were: UP 7, Raja of Mahmudabad, Wazir Hasan, Syed Nabiullah, Syed Ali Nabi, Samiullah Beg, Syed Raza Ali, Sahibzada Aftab Ahmed Khan; Bengal 7, Syed Nawabali Chowdhry, A. Rasul, Fazlul Huq; Panjab 4, Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Khan, M. M. Shaft, M. Barkat Ali; Bihar and Orissa 4, Sir Ali Imam, Mazharul Haque; Bombay and Sind 6, Aga Khan, Sir I. Rahimtulla, A. H. A. Peerbhoy, Jinnah, G. M. Bhurgri, F. Tyabji; Madras 3, Yakub Hasan, Nawab Syed Muhammad, N. G. A. Kalami; CP and Berar 1; Burma 2: Home Poll A Feb. 1916, nos. 425–8, Enclosure H. Originally some 71 members were proposed to this committee: see Pirzada, S. S., Foundations of Pakistan, Vol. I, pp. 354–56Google Scholar.

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97 Home Poll B Nov. 1916, nos. 452–53. Muslims were originally to get 30% of seats in Bihar, 20% in Bombay. It was stated that this meeting agreed to concede to the Muslims 33⅓% of the seats in the central Council (a weightage of some 12%). but this was not incorporated in the final scheme: see Section III of the scheme in The Indian Demands, pp. 100–3.

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116 See ibid, and Hindu, Dec. 29, 1916, p. 10.

117 Hindu, Jan. 3, 1917, p. 5; of the other three, two were from south India, one from the Panjab.

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119 Leader, Jan. 6, 1917, in UP Newspapers 1917, PP. 11–12; see also Abhyudaya, Nov. 11, 1916, Azad, Nov. 23, 1916, in UP Newspapers 1916, pp. 1023, 1046; Al Bureed, Jan. 4, 1917, Anand (Lucknow), Jan. 8, 1917 in UP Newspapers 1917, pp. 26–7.

120 See for example UP Newspapers 1917, pp. 44, 45, 61, 62, 80.

121 Report of the 31st Indian National Congress … 1916, p. 96.

122 Dev Ratan Sharma, Secretary, A-I Hindu Sabha and Congress delegate from the Panjab, to Mrs. A. Besant, Dec. 28, 1917, Adyar Archives.

123 Address by the Panjab Hindu Sabha, Montagu Addresses, p. 14.

124 See Sardar Sundar Singh Majithia in Hindu, Jan. 11, 1917, p. 5.

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126 Home Poll Dep. March 1917, no. 32.

127 Montagu Addresses, p. 13.

128 See UP Newspapers 1916, p.IIII; Musawat (Allahabad), Jan. 18, Mukhbir-i-Alam (Moradabad), Jan. 15, Al-Bashir (Etawah), Jan. 23, 1917, in ibid. 1917, pp. 61, 62, 80.

129 Mashriq (Gorakhpur), Nov. 7, Nov. 21, Dec. 5, 1916, Medina (Bijnor), Nov. 22, 1916, Nasim (Agra), Dec. 19, 1916, Nai Roshni (Aliahabad), Dec. 6, Dec. 10, 1916, in UP Newspapers 1916, pp. 1022–23, –46, –7, –83, –4, –99, 1126; though cf. Nai Roshni, Dec. 25, 1916 in UP Newspapers 1917, p. 11.

130 UP Newspapers 1917, p. 62.

131 See Sir James Meston to Lord Chelmsford, Jan. 11, 1917, Chelmsford Correspondence, India Office Records, MSS. Eur. E. 264, Vol. XVIII.

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133 Madras Presidency Muslim League, Council Minutes, Nov. 30, Dec. 15, Dec. 18, 1917; Home Poll Dep. Jan. 1918, no. 2; Montagu Addresses, p. 62.

134 Montagu, An Indian Diary, p. 118.

135 Home Poll Dep. May 1917, no. 70; ibid. May 1917, nos. 445–48, p. 5; ibid. Dep. Aug. 1917 no. 3; ibid, Dep. Jan. 1918, no. 1, p. 8.

136 See Fateh Ali Khan, Qizilbash, Nawab, to Sir James Meston, Jan. 3, 1914, May 19, 1914, and Wazir Hasan, May 7, 1914, in Meston Papers, MSS. Eur. F. 136, Vol. VI.

137 Moslem Hitaishi, Sept. 17, 1915, in Bengal Newspapers 1915, p. 646.

138 Hindu, Nov. 27, 1916, pp. 5, 10, Dec. 27, 1916, pp. 3–4; UP Newspapers 1916, pp. 1023, 1029–30, 1129; Bengal Newspapers 1916, pp. 1434, 1504, 1541.

139 1877–1936; educated Abbottabad, Peshawar, Lahore, Cambridge, Gray's Inn; barrister Sialkot 1901–1905, Lahore 1905–20; leader, Panjab Unionist Party, and Minister for Education and Local Self-Government, Panjab, 1921–25; Panjab Executive Councillor 1926–30; Member, Viceroy's Executive Council, 1930–35.

140 Home Poll Dep. March 1916, no. 49; ibid. B March 1916, nos. 667–70; Bihar and Orissa Police 1917, par. 143; Hindu, Dec. 30, 1916, p. 12.

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150 Home Poll B May 1917, nos. 445–48, p. 24; Bengal Police 1917, pars. 1685, 2774.

151 J. H. Broomfield, Elite Conflict, pp. 114–15; Bengal Newspapers 1917, pp. 456, 564, 596.

152 Mohammadi, Nov. 10, 1916, in Bengal Newspapers 1916, p. 1540.

153 The great mosque of Calcutta near which many leading Muslim merchants had their premises.

154 Bengal Police 1917, pars. 4337, 4593; Bengal Newspapers 1917, p. 1165.

155 Bengal Police 1917, pars. 4471, 4597, 4725, 4849, 4959.

156 Montagu Addresses, pp. 29–30.

157 Ibid., p. 29.

158 Ibid.; Montagu, An Indian Diary, p. 86.

159 J. H. Broomfield, Elite Conflict, pp. 125–29; Indian Statutory Commission, Vol. XVII, pp. 48, 51, 181, 193.

160 Report of the Reforms Enquiry Committee, 7924 [“Muddiman Report”] (London: HMSO, 1925), pp. 18, 198Google Scholar ; See J. H. Broomfield, Elite Conflict.

161 Bihar and Orissa Police 1917, par. 1249; Home Poll Dep. Nov. 1917, no. 7, pp. 10–11.

162 Bihar and Orissa Police 1917, pars. 161, 192, 542; Home Poll A Dec. 1913, nos. 1–4; cf. Lovett, V., A History of the Indian Nationalist Movement (London: Murray, 1921), pp. 143–50Google Scholar.

163 Home Poll B Nov. 1917, nos. 471–74, p. 14; ibid. Dep. Jan. 1918, no. 1, p. 18.

164 Bengal Police 1917, pars. 4605, 4735, 4852(3), 4959; Bengal Newspapers 1917, pp. 1090, 1105, 1106, 1124–8, 1167; Bihar and Orissa Police 1917, pars. 15, 1350; Home Poll B Dec. 1917, nos. 225–28, p. 4.

165 (London: Allen and Unwin, 1946), p. 36.

166 See figures in Rothermund, D., Die Politische Willensbildung in Indien, 1900–1960 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1965), p. 74Google Scholar.

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168 par 3 section I, in The Indian Demands, p. 97; for the franchise for the central council see par. 3, section III, ibid., p. 100.

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171 Sec Home Poll Dep. Jan. 19171 no. 45.

172 Anand (Lucknow), Jan. 8, 1917, in UP Newspapers 1917, p. 26–7.