State any three factors leading to the formation of the Muslim League.

(1) The BRITISH POLICY OF DIVIDE AND RULE — after 1857 the British deliberately encouraged separatism, favouring Muslims in appointments and education so as to weaken the growing national movement. (2) The INFLUENCE OF SIR SYED AHMAD KHAN, who urged Muslims to keep away from the Congress, which he portrayed as a Hindu body, and to remain loyal to the British and seek advancement through modern education — the Aligarh Movement. (3) The ANTI-PARTITION AGITATION in Bengal, which a section of Muslim opinion opposed because East Bengal would have been a Muslim-majority province; and the fear among Muslim leaders that their community would be left behind in government service and representation, which convinced them they needed a separate political organisation.

One mark per factor. The founding facts belong in your opening line: the All India Muslim League was founded at Dhaka in December 1906 under Nawab Salimullah. Give three genuinely different factors — British policy, Sir Syed’s influence, and the reaction to the Bengal agitation. Adding what the League achieved from it — separate electorates, granted by the Morley-Minto Reforms of 1909 — shows the consequence.