Mention two objectives of the Muslim League.

(1) To promote among the Muslims of India feelings of loyalty towards the British Government, and to remove any misconception about the intentions of that Government. (2) To protect and advance the political rights and interests of the Muslims of India and to represent their needs to the Government — while preventing the growth of hostility towards other communities.

One mark each. Both objectives must be stated as the League itself framed them in 1906 — note that LOYALTY to the British is the first of them, which is the point the examiner is checking, since it explains why the British encouraged the League. Founding facts: established at Dhaka in December 1906 under Nawab Salimullah of Dhaka. The demand for a separate state came much later, in the Lahore Resolution of 1940 — do not read it back into the original objectives.