Question

What is the importance of Lucknow Pact?

• A. It divided Hindus and Muslims.
• B. Pakistan was created.
• C. There was demand of Poorna Swaraj.
• D. It united Hindus and Muslims to fight jointly against the British.

Answer 1

The correct option is D It united Hindus and Muslims to fight jointly against the British.

Lucknow Pact refers to an agreement reached between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League at the joint session of both the parties, held in Lucknow, in the year 1916. Muhammad Ali Jinnah, then a member of the Congress as well as the League, made both the parties reach an agreement to pressure the British government to adopt a more liberal approach to India and give Indians more authority to run their country, besides safeguarding basic Muslim demands. Due to the reconciliation brought about by Jinnah between the Congress and the League, the Nightingale of India, Sarojini Naidu, gave him the title of “the Ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity”.