The Muslim League had demanded, since its 1940 Lahore Resolution, that the Muslim-majority areas of India in the northwest and the east, should be constituted as 'independent states'.
Liga Muslim telah menuntut, sejak Resolusi Lahore tahun 1940, bahwa wilayah mayoritas Muslim di India barat laut dan timur, harus dibentuk sebagai "negara-negara merdeka".