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  THE STATESMAN.....   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Congress-League scheme popularly known as the Lucknow Pact pointed out the steps that needed to be taken to gain self government for India.
The most significant achievement of this pact for the Muslims was that for the first time the Congress had recognized the Muslim League as a
Jinnah (center) was the principal architect of the Lucknow Pact, 1916
www.pakistan.gov.pk /Quaid/politician4.htm   (371 words)

  
 marathonpacks: keep on freeing in the rock world.: Lucknow Pact "The Critics, The Band, The In-Between"
Lucknow Pact "The Critics, The Band, The In-Between"
There's been an obvious trend the past few years for post-post-punk bands to name themselves with an eye toward the militaristic and/or political--Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol--nominally (not ideologically) aligning themselves with the originator of the trend, Army of Lovers.
Anyhoo, Sweden's Lucknow Pact is named after a 1916 treaty between the Indian Muslim League and their British colonizers that gave the former much greater latitude with their individual freedoms.
marathonpacks.com /2005/11/lucknow-pact-critics-band-in-between.html   (182 words)

  
 jeevaypakistan.com - A Tribute to Muhammad Ali Jinnah...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
He played a major role in negotiating the so-called Lucknow Pact (1916) between the League and the Congress, in which the latter conceded that Muslims should have a separate communal electorate to ensure them adequate legislative representation.
When the Muslim League was founded at Dacca, it was hijacked by representatives of the Muslim salariat from Aligarh, whose stance was that of unquestioning loyalty to the British, their basic demand being a fairer distribution of government jobs.
That was achieved in the form of the Lucknow Pact of 1916.
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The Congress-League scheme embodied in this pact was to become the basis for the Montagu-Chemlsford Reforms, also known as the Act of 1919.
In retrospect, the Lucknow Pact represented a milestone in the evolution of Indian politics.
More important, because of his key-role in the Congress-League entente at Lucknow, he was hailed as the ambassador, as well as the embodiment, of Hindu-Muslim unity.
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 The Lucknow Pact [1916]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This meeting settled the details of an agreement about the composition of the legislatures and the quantum of representation to be allowed to the two communities.
The agreement was confirmed by the annual sessions of the Congress and the League in their annual session held at Lucknow on December 29 and December 31, 1916 respectively.
Sarojini Naidu gave Jinnah, the chief architect of the Lucknow Pact, the title of "the Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity".
www.storyofpakistan.com /articletext.asp?artid=A032&Pg=2   (378 words)

  
 DAWN - Letters; August 30, 2003
Closer scrutiny, however, shows that the pact was not as ideal a solution as it is made out to be.
It was as a result of Lucknow Pact that the Muslim majority in Muslim majority provinces of Bengal and Punjab was reduced from 52 per cent in Bengal to 40 per cent and from 54 per cent in Punjab to 50 per cent.
When someone condemns the Unionists in Punjab, he forgets that the compromises made at Lucknow, in which Muslim majority was reduced to parity, left the Punjabi Muslims with no choice but to form the Unionist parties and ally with the non-Muslims.
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 Mohammed Ali Jinnah
And in December of 1916 Jinnah managed in Lucknow to bring India's National Congress and the hitherto far more conservative and loyalist Muslim League together in demanding the same set of post-War representative reforms, which Jinnah drafted, the Lucknow Pact.
Before the end of World War I, then, Jinnah was the most prominent young leader of both major political organisations in British India, enjoying the ear of the viceroy and his ICS cabinet on their own council as well.
President Jinnah addressed his devoted followers, dressed no longer as a British barrister, donning instead the fl Persian lamb cap and fl sherwani in which he would soon become famous the world over as Quaid-i-Azam of the Muslim nation, soon to be born as Pakistan.
www.india-today.com /itoday/millennium/100people/jinnah.html   (1303 words)

  
 MusicMule :: View topic - Lucknow Pact - Youth Is For The Old
Then, using that logic, Lucknow Pact would scare you to death.
The band hails from Gothenburg, Sweden, and their sound is fragile, yet powerful, melancholy, yet upbeat and they sing of love, life, the anxiety of ageing and everything that comes with it.
Lucknow Pact is still very much about light and exuberance - "A sad melody gives us happy feelings.
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 The Competition Master - Infobank - Indian History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lucknow Pact (1916): The war between Turkey and Britain aroused anti-British feelings among Muslims and paved the way for co-operation with the Congress.
Both Congress and the Muslim League, in their session at Lucknow in 1916, concluded the famous agreement known as the Lucknow Pact which included the recognition of separate electorates.
In the Lucknow session of the Congress, the Home Rule Leagures were able to demonstrate their political strength.
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 Lucknow Pact
Lucknow Pact was formed in October 2002 in Gothenburg, Sweden by Andreas Hartman, Markus Hasselblom, Mischa Hayman and Lars Nordgren.
Lucknow Pact released a vinyl single, A few drinks a few laughs, on Hej Musik!
The drummer Lars Nordgren left Lucknow Pact in August and was replaced by Tammy Karlsson.
www.hellosurprise.com /lucknow-pact.html   (234 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
As a talking shop with no permanent organization and no proven ability to mobilize the Indian people that it claimed to represent, it tried to show it was representative by being inclusive, by actively trying to incorporate representative members of all of India?s human species.
Upto and including the Lucknow Pact, this strategy of negotiated inclusion was the default mode of Congress nationalism.
Even in 1916, the pact between the Congress and the League was a treaty between unequal organizations.
www.telegraphindia.com /1050710/asp/opinion/story_4970017.asp   (1236 words)

  
 Bangladesh - Development of the Muslim League, 1906-20
In 1916 the two parties signed the Congress-Muslim League Pact (often referred to as the Lucknow Pact), a joint platform and call for national independence.
The Lucknow Pact was a high-water mark of unity in the nationalist cause, but it also endorsed a scheme that engendered communal rather than national identity.
The plan for separate electorates for Muslims, first put into law by the Indian Councils Act of 1909, was further strengthened and expanded by the India Act of 1919 (the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms).
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 ..::: Jinnah of Pakistan - Calendar of Events (1917) :: Humsafar.info :::..   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
At his request, Curtis, who had prepared a scheme to counter the Lucknow Pact, met the Bombay political caucus comprising about 70 politicians for two hours to discuss the implications of the Luckow demands.
Nominated by All India Muslim League Council on the deputation to London to work with Indian National Congress for the introduction of Reforms in the light of Lucknow Pact.
In a president's interview in Simla, pleaded for the introduction of constitutional reforms in the light of Memorandum of 19 All India Muslim League Council members and Lucknow Pact.
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 Lucknow Pact - Dowlands the Haze Remix / The Hype Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Lucknow Pact - Dowlands the Haze Remix / The Hype Machine
This page provides information about the track Dowlands the Haze Remix by Lucknow Pact posted on the Cobain In a Coma blog.
If you are concerned about our listings, you can find more information here and are welcome to contact us directly.
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 Historical Sikh Events at Gateway to Sikhism:Partition of Punjab 1947   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
His primary aim was to win the Muslims reprieve for their part in mutiny of 1857.
In 1916 Congress attempted to appease muslims by giving them several separate communal laws and claims in a pact called Lucknow Pact.
In Punjab, 50 percent of seats were reserved for Muslims under this League-Congress pact and Sikhs were completely ignored.
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All-India Muslim League's annual session at Lucknow adopted the change in the demand of the League, resolving 'the attainment of a system of self-government for India.
The Quaid-i-Azam presides over the Bombay Provincial Conference held at Ahmedabad and in his address appeals for a joint and concerted action on all question of accord.
Joint meeting of the Congress and Muslim League held at Bombay, decides to send a deputation to England to promote the scheme for reforms.
www.msu.edu /~pious/independence.htm   (1408 words)

  
 Sri Aurobindo,yoga,Selected on line books and articles on India, Freedom movement,the Home rule
The Lucknow Pact made in December 1916 was an agreement made by the Indian National Congress and the All-India Muslim League and adopted by the Congress at its Lucknow session on December 29 and by the League on Dec. 31, 1916.
The meeting at Lucknow marked the reunion of the moderate and radical wings of the Congress and was dominated by Tilak.  The pact dealt both with the structure of the government of India and with the relation of the Hindu and Muslim communities.
However, there are many who feel that this was a wrong step and was in fact the first step in creating a permanent division between the Hindus and Muslims.
searchforlight.org /lotushall/towardsfreedom/towardsfreedom_kittu_7.htm   (1797 words)

  
 sajjad zaheer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In this period, he made many trips from London to Lucknow for the purpose, formed a nucleus of the PWA in London in 1935 before its actual formation in India, and drafted its manifesto which became the rallying point for poets and writers in India.
The PWA was one of the trio of organisations formed at the same time, the other two being the All India Kisan Sabha and Students Congress that later became Students Federation.
The PWA was, in a very real sense, a united front in the field of literature though interested quarters always dubbed it as a communist body.
www.ganashakti.com /old/2005/051219/world.htm   (2743 words)

  
 Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Tilak trusted him and was a party to the famous Lucknow Pact.
Gandhi's resolution on noncooperation and said that it would lead to mob hysteria and violence and urged that the constitutional way should be followed.
From Curzan to Cripps, fro Minto to Mountbatten, from Nagpur Congress to the Nehru Report, from Lucknow Pact to Lahore Resolution, from 14 points to 14th August are the landmarks on the pathway to Pakistan.
www.majinnah.com.pk /html_files/faith_article.htm   (1423 words)

  
 THE STATESMAN.....   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
When the Indians delegates at the Round Table conference had been unable to agree upon any suitable reforms especially concerning the communal issue, the job was left to the British once again.
The British Prime Minister announced the Communal Award on the 16th of April 1932, in which he introduced reforms on the lines of Lucknow Pact, which was the only juncture in history when the Muslims and Hindus had agreed uopn any issue.
With the introduction of the Award however, the Muslims lost their majority in important provinces like Bengal and Punjab which was a set back for them.
www.pakistan.gov.pk /Quaid/politician14.htm   (355 words)

  
 Achtergrondinformatie, analyse en nieuws over de crisis India-Pakistan (June 2005)
Washington's move to boost relations between the world's oldest and largest democracies which were on the opposite sides in the Cold War was seen by analysts as part of a strategy to counter the growing influence of China, India's immediate neighbour.
He added in his comment, later carried by newspapers around the region, that some Lucknow children had tickets for a film later but decided to forego it to find out about their counterparts in Hyderabad.
He was hailed as the ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity after the 1916 Lucknow Pact, when the Muslim League (ML) and the Congress agreed to jointly fight the British.
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 pop on paper
Seven Feet Four - to kill is easy
Lucknow Pact - the critics, the band, the in-between
Lucknow Pact - if you leave me, take me with you
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 NEWSMIX - MUSIC NEWS
The band hails from Gothenburg, Sweden, and their sound is fragile, yet
Lucknow Pact is still very much about light and exuberance......
effectively show that Lucknow Pact is a solid, and quite unique unit".
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