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I've read a few different sources on it over the years. Mostly online, but not Wikipedia. However, I certainly don't claim to be an expert on the topic.
While it's true that the All India Muhammadan Educational Conference was initially formed only to educate and advance Muslims, it was this very organization that spawned the political activism and the Muslim League that would later result in the creation Pakistan.
And I feel you are being a bit unfair to Syed Ahmed Khan. Although he didn't have any political aspirations himself, he helped cultivate a political Muslim identity that was completely separate from Hindus. He refused to join the Congress Party, and dissuaded other Muslims from doing so. The All India Muhammadan Educational Conference he established eventually became much more than just an apolitical educational movement.
That may have been the true for Bengal. However, you are being willfully ignorant if you think that all the Muslims of northern India only began to see themselves as separate from Hindus because of the partition of Bengal. While I don't doubt that it was a very important event that galvanized the community, to say that it alone led to the idea that Muslims and Hindus were two completely separate groups is absurd.
Yes, and although it was founded in Dhaka, most of its leaders were not Bengali.
I don't believe Allama Iqbal ever joined the Congress Party. He, along with others, spearheaded the movement before Jinnah. And of course, he called for a merger of the provinces that make up present-day Pakistan in Allahabad at an All-India Muslim League session in 1930:
"I would like to see the Punjab, North West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single state. Self government within the British empire without the British empire, the formation of a consolidated North West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims at least of North West India."
The Muslim League/Pakistan Movement was obviously very fluid. It evolved over time. Many different people, events, and ideas influenced it. The details can be debated for an eternity. It's not a discussion I'm particularly interested in. I will leave you to debate it with members who are more interested and more knowledgeable about it than myself.
I was only responding to two people who claimed that Bengalis alone "created" Pakistan, and that Jinnah (whatever his history) was just someone who happened to be in the right place at the right time. Nothing could be further from the truth. That was the only thing I wanted to comment on.
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