All-India Muslim League

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The All-India Muslim League was a political party in British India. It was founded at Dacca (now Dhaka, Bangladesh), in the Bengal Presidency, in 1906. The played an important role during the 1940s in the Indian independence movement. This party's most prominent achievement was mobilizing Muslim People for creation of Muslim dominated country, Pakistan. It played role as driving force behind the creation of Pakistan as a Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent.[1]

After the independence of India and Pakistan, the Muslim League became split up into several components. The major part went to Pakistan and continued politics as Muslim League there. It also continued as a minor party in India, especially in Kerala, where it is often in government within a coalition with others. Muslim League still does politics in Bangladesh also. But their public acceptability is not good.



In Pakistan, the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) is still one of the major political parties, although it has a number of groups now, like the PML-N, PML-Q and others.

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