page_title: Pakistan Movement
section_title: Renaissance vision
hierarchical_section_title: Pakistan Movement / History of the movement / Renaissance vision
caption_attribution_description: English: Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, the founder of Aligarh Muslim University.
context_page_description: The Pakistan Movement or Tahrik-e-Pakistan was a political movement in the first half of the 20th century that aimed for and succeeded in the creation of the Dominion of Pakistan from the Muslim-majority areas of British India.
  Pakistan Movement started originally as the Aligarh Movement, and as a result, the British Indian Muslims began to develop a secular political identity. Soon thereafter, the All India Muslim League was formed, which perhaps marked the beginning of the Pakistan Movement. Many of the top leadership of the movement were educated in Great Britain, with many of them educated at the Aligarh Muslim University. Many graduates of the Dhaka University soon also joined.
  The Pakistan Movement was a part of the Indian independence movement, but eventually it also sought to establish a new nation-state that protected the political interests of the Indian Muslims.
  Urdu poets such as Iqbal and Faiz used literature, poetry and speech as a powerful tool for political awareness.
context_section_description: Very few Muslim families had their children sent at the English universities. On the other hand, the effects of Bengali Renaissance made the Hindus population to be more educated and gained lucrative positions at the Indian Civil Service; many ascended to the influential posts in the British government.
caption: Sir Syed Ahmad Khan became an inspiration for the Pakistan Movement.
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