he Pakistan Movement or Tehrik-e-Pakistan (Bengali:Pakistan Andolon; Urdu Taḥrīk-i Pākistān was a religious political movement in the 1940s that aimed for and succeeded in the creation of Pakistan from the Muslim-majority areas of the British Indian Empire.
The leadership of the movement was educated at Aligarh Muslim University. From the Aligarh Movement, the Indian Muslim community developed a secular political identity.[1] The Pakistan Movement progressed within India alongside the Indian independence movement, but the Pakistan Movement sought to establish a new nation-state that protected the religious identity and political interests of Muslims in Indian subcontinent.[2]
Urdu poets such as Iqbal and Faiz used literature, poetry and speech as a powerful tool for political awareness.
The driving force behind the Pakistan Movement was the Muslim community of the Muslim minority provinces, United Provinces and Bombay Presidency, rather than that of the Muslim majority provinces
Background
During this time, Lord Macaulay's radical and influential educational reforms led to the numerous changes to the introduction and teaching of Western languages (e.g. English and Latin), history, and philosophy.[9][10] Religious studies and the Arabic, Turkish, and Persian languages were completely barred from the state universities. In a short span of time, the English language had become not only the medium of instruction but also the official language in 1835 in place of Persian, disadvantaging those who had built their careers around the latter language