ABSTRACT

The special Muslim League session held in Lahore in May, 1924, was followed by a regular session in Bombay in the last week of December. When the All-Party Conference met in Delhi on January 23, 1925, with Gandhi in the chair, Jinnah alone represented the Muslim League. The special Muslim League session held in Lahore in May, 1924, was followed by a regular session in Bombay in the last week of December. A committee was set up to draft the demands of the Muslims for a proper share of the membership of legislative bodies and of the government services. The first and basic point was that the Muslims should receive a constitutional guarantee that their majority in the legislatures would be maintained in the provinces in which they were a majority. The question of the Muslim majority in the Punjab became a basic factor in the conflict between Hindu and Muslim aspirations and every attempt during the next ten years was frustrated because of the Punjab question.