Choudhary Rahmat Ali

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Choudhary Rahmat Ali (born November 16, 1897 in Balachaur , India , † February 3, 1951 in Cambridge , Great Britain ) is considered one of the founders of the Pakistan National Movement , which advocated the division of British India and the establishment of an independent Muslim state called Pakistan began. He is also considered the creator of the country name "Pakistan".

Choudhary Rahmat Ali was born in 1897 in the village of Balachaur near Hoshiarpur in what is now the Indian part of Punjab . After attending school in Jalandhar , he studied law in Lahore . In 1930 he went to England to enroll at Cambridge University . There he published his widely acclaimed essay “Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever '”(“ Now or Never; Will we live or disappear forever? ”), In which he campaigned for the establishment of an independent Muslim state on Indian soil and for the first time the name“ Pakstan ”as an acronym for P unjab , A fghania ( Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ), K aschmir , S INDH and Baluchi tan used. In 1940 he returned to British India to attend the party convention of the Muslim League in Lahore, at which the founding of Pakistan was decided ( Lahore resolution ), but was unable to attend the party congress. In the same year he returned to England. In 1948 he visited Pakistan, which had been granted independence the year before. However, since he criticized the implementation of the establishment of the state, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan denied him Pakistani citizenship. His property was confiscated and he left Pakistan penniless. Back in Europe, he became involved with the Muslim minority in India, including at the United Nations . Ali died in Cambridge in February 1951 and was buried there in Newmarket Road Cemetery.

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  1. ↑ Historiography of India's Partition: An Analysis of Imperialist Writings by Viśva Mohana Pāndeya, page 15
  2. ^ Governments and politics of South Asia JC Johari, p. 208
  3. ↑ Creating New States: Theory and Practice of Secession By Aleksandar Pavković, Peter Radan p. 103
  4. ↑ Khursheed Kamal Aziz. Rahmat Ali: a biography. 1987, pp 340-345
  5. ↑ Khursheed Kamal Aziz. Rahmat Ali: a biography. 1987, pp. 303, 316
personal data
SURNAME Ali, Choudhary Rahmat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rehmat Ali Khan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the Pakistan National Movement
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Balachaur , India
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1951
Place of death Cambridge , UK