Lahore

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Political resolution site shaping partition debates

Lahore is used as a place timeline node for connected historical events in Bengal/Bangladesh history.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

Events in This Place

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1 event

1940

Lahore Resolution

Bengal helps move the Lahore Resolution into late colonial politics.

In March 1940, the All-India Muslim League adopted the Lahore Resolution at its Lahore session, and A. K. Fazlul Huq of Bengal formally moved the resolution. The text called for Muslim-majority areas in the northwestern and eastern zones of British India to be grouped into 'independent states' with autonomous and sovereign constituent units. Although it did not mention Pakistan by name, it became a major political turning point in constitutional politics.