Allahabad Address

Allahabad Address was the Presidential Address by Allama Iqbal to the 25th Session of the All-India Muslim League on 29 December, 1930, at Allahabad. Here he presented the idea of a separate homeland for Indian Muslims which was ultimately realised in the form of Pakistan.

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Iqbal's clarification about his Address

Following is the letter, Allama Iqbal wrote to Prof. Edward John Thompson of Oxford University.

Dr. Sir Mohd Iqbal, M.A., Ph.D. Barrister-at-Law

Lahore4th March 1934

My Dear Mr. Thompson,

I have just received your review of my book. It is excellent and I am grateful to you for the very kind things you have said of me. But you have made one mistake which I hasten to point as I consider it rather serious. You call me a protagonist of the scheme called “Pakistan”. Now Pakistan is not my scheme. The one that I suggested in my address is the creation of a Muslim Province – i.e; a province having an overwhelming population of Muslims in the North-West of India. This new province will be, according to my scheme, a part of the proposed Indian Federation. Pakistan scheme proposes a separate federation of Muslim Provinces directly related to England as a separate dominion. This scheme originated in Cambridge. The authors of this scheme believe that we Muslim Round Tablers have sacrificed the Muslim nation on the altar of Hindu or the so called Indian Nationalism.

Yours Sincerely,

Mohammed Iqbal

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title=Sir Muhammad Iqbal’s 1930 Presidential Address (read text)
work = Columbia University
url = http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_iqbal_1930.html
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title=Allahabad Address (1930)
work = Story of Pakistan website
url = http://www.storyofpakistan.com/articletext.asp?artid=A038
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title=Iqbal and the Pakistan Movement
work = Iqbal Academy Pakistan
url = http://www.allamaiqbal.com/person/movement/move_main.htm
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