1858 - The India Act: power transferred to British Government.
1905 - First Partition of Bengal for administrative purposes. Gives the Muslims a majority in that state.
1906 - All India Muslim League founded to promote Muslim political interests.
1909 - Revocation of Partition of Bengal. Creates anti-British and anti-Hindu sentiments among Muslims as they lose their majority in East Bengal.
1919 - Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (implemented in 1921). Communal representation institutionalized for the first time as reserved legislative seats are allocated for significant minorities.
1930 - Dr. Allama Iqbal, a poet-politician, calls for a separate homeland for the Muslims at the Allahabad session of the Muslim League.
1931 - Irwin-Gandhi Pact, which concedes to Gandhi's demands at the Round Table conferences and further isolates Muslim League from the Congress and the British.
1940 - Jinnah calls for establishment of Pakistan in an independent and partitioned India.
1942-43 -Muslim League gains more power: ministries formed in Sind, Bengal and North-West Frontier Province and greater influence in the Punjab.
1944 - Gandhi released from prison. Unsuccessful Gandhi-Jinnah talks, but Muslims see this as an acknowledgment that Jinnah represents all Indian Muslims.
1946 - Muslim League participates in Interim Government that is set up according to the Cabinet Mission Plan.
1947 - Announcement of Lord Mountbatten's plan for partition of India, 3 June. Partition of India and Pakistan, 15 August. Radcliffe Award of boundaries of the nations, 16 August.
1919 - Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (implemented in 1921). Communal representation institutionalized for the first time as reserved legislative seats are allocated for significant minorities.
1942-43 -Muslim League gains more power: ministries formed in Sind, Bengal and North-West Frontier Province and greater influence in the Punjab.
1947 - Announcement of Lord Mountbatten's plan for partition of India, 3 June. Partition of India and Pakistan, 15 August. Radcliffe Award of boundaries of the nations, 16 August.