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Turning point · Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948
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.”
This is one scene of Chapter 3 — The Great War’s Price in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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