Lucknow Pact

The Lucknow Pact is an agreement between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League at the time of British India. 1916 acted Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a member of the Indian National Congress in Lucknow ( Lucknow engl. ) an agreement with the Muslim League from putting pressure on the British colonial rulers to exercise. The goal was a more liberal design of the rule and thus more detailed authority of the Indians against the British. This was a radical change in the policy of the Muslim League, as she stepped before a Partizipialinteresse only for the Muslims, for which they needed the colonial rule of the British in contrast to the Hindus.

Main demands

The main demands of the pact were:

  • Self-government of the Indian population
  • The representation of Muslims should be represented in the central administration to a third
  • There should be different electorates for all the communities until a community demands joint electorates
  • The number of members of the central Legislative Council should be increased to 150
  • At regional level, 4/5 of the members of the Legislative Council are elected and fifth appointed
  • The size of the regional legislature should not be greater than 125 in major provinces and move in smaller provinces between 50 and 75
  • All members, except those who are appointed should be directly elected - based on adult franchise
  • No law concerning a community should be able to be enforced, if 3/4 of the members of the Legislative Council in the town, however, are
  • The Legislative Council should be elected for five years
  • The members of the Legislative Council in turn elect a president
  • Half of the members of the Imperial Legislative Council should be Indians
  • The Indian Council abolished
  • Salaries of State for Indian Affairs should be paid by the British government and not from the Indian capital
  • From two Deputy Secretaries should be one Indian
  • The executive should be separated from the judiciary

Follow

Larger consequences had not the pact. Although the government announced in 1917 to slowly dismissed India 's independence, but this plan was put into action for the first not. Once it became clear that the British colonialists did not took in to the demands - or only in unimportant parts - joined Ali Jinnah in the Muslim League, in which he became president and thus crucial to the political independence of India and the division of the Muslim (Bangladesh, Pakistan ) has been working from the Hindu (India) part.

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