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Lucknow Pact (1916)
On the Indian independence map as “Lucknow — the pact”
Dec 1916 — Congress and the Muslim League, meeting in the same city, sign a common scheme for self-government: Congress concedes separate electorates, the League joins the national demand. Jinnah is the pact’s architect — hailed as “the best ambassador of Hindu–Muslim unity.”
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- India in World War I (chapter 5 of Indian independence)
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- Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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