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  Fourteen Points of M. A. Jinnah [1929]
1905-1940
The Struggle for Freedom
Partition of Bengal [1905-1911]
Simla Deputation [1906]
Establishment of All India Muslim League [1906]
Minto-Morley Reforms
The Lucknow Pact [1916]
Montague-Chelmsford Reforms
Khilafat Movement [1919-1924]
Simon Commission [1927]
Delhi Muslim Proposals [1927]
Nehru Report [1928]
All Parties Muslim Conference
Fourteen Points of M. A. Jinnah [1929]
Allahabad Address [1930]
Round Table Conferences [1930-33]
The Communal Award [1932]
Government of India Act 1935
Rule of Congress Ministries [1937-1939]
The Ideology of Pakistan: Two-Nation Theory
Personalities
Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk
Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk
Syed Ameer Ali
Maulana Shaukat Ali
Aga Khan III
Maulana Muhammad Ali Jouhar
Allama Iqbal
Choudhary Rahmat Ali
Quaid-i-Azam termed the Nehru Report as a Hindu document
A positive aspect of Nehru Report was that it resulted in the unity of divided Muslim groups. In a meeting of the council of All India Muslim League on March 28, 1929, members of both the Shafi League and Jinnah League participated. Quaid-i-Azam termed the Nehru Report as a Hindu document, but considered simply rejecting the report as insufficient. He decided to give an alternative Muslim agenda. It was in this meeting that Quaid-i-Azam presented his famous Fourteen Points. These points were as follows:

Newspaper clip about Jinnah's Fouteen Points
1. The form of the future constitution should be federal with the residuary powers vested in the provinces.

2. A uniform measure of autonomy shall be granted to all provinces.

3. All legislatures in the country and other elected bodies shall be constituted on the definite principle of adequate and effective representation of minorities in every province without reducing the majority in any province to a minority or even equality.

4. In the Central Legislative, Muslim representation shall not be less than one-third.

5. Representation of communal groups shall continue to be by means of separate electorate as at present, provided it shall be open to any community at any time to abandon its separate electorate in favor of a joint electorate.

6. Any territorial distribution that might at any time be necessary shall not in any way affect the Muslim majority in the Punjab, Bengal and the North West Frontier Province.

7. Full religious liberty, i.e. liberty of belief, worship and observance, propaganda, association and education, shall be guaranteed to all communities.

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