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The Aḥrār Movement , or Majlis-i Aḥrār-i Islām (MAI, “Society of the Free Men of Islam”), was a small Panjabi Islamist movement founded in 1931. It grew out of the response of the Punjāb Khilafat (Panjāb Khilāfat) Committee (PKC, founded in the wake of the movement to safeguard the Ottoman caliphate after the Sèvres Treaty of 1920) to the 1928 Nehru Report, which did not provide for separate electorates (as had been demanded by Muslim League to safeguard Muslim political interests), but allowed for the reservation of Muslim seats
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Language:eng
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