Direct Action Day
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Direct Action Day (also known as Affirmative Action Plan) on August 16, 1946 was a day to protest and voice the Muslim demand for Pakistan. This was planned as a peaceful day of civil disobedience. Direct Action Day, which, though peaceful all over India led to violence in Calcutta, Bihar and Noakhali where according to Lord Wavell's estimate 3000 Hindus and 7000 Muslims were killed. The figure has generally been corroborated by Sir Francis Tuker's account. Violence was then perpetrated against Muslims in Bihar, the bloodbath which finally erupted across the country. Over 10,000 (up to 100,000 by non-official sources) Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Muslims were killed. Following the Direct Action Day debacle and fearing the collapse of Muslim League coalition ministry with Scheduled Caste Federation in Bengal, Muslim League was forced to enter the Interim Government on Congress' conditions. Jinnah stayed out of the ministries, allowing Liaquat Ali Khan to head the League ministers.
In terms of a resolution of the Muslim League Council Meeting held during the period 27 July –29 July 1946, the Direct Action Day was intended to unfold “direct action for the achievement of Pakistan.”
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Creation of Pakistan
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| History: | General History - British East India Company - 1857 War of Independence - Aligarh Movement - Partition of Bengal - Lucknow Pact - Khilafat Movement - Nehru Report - Fourteen Points of Jinnah - Allahabad Address - Now or Never pamphlet - Two-Nation Theory - British East India Company - Indian Round Table Conferences - Pakistan Resolution - Indian Muslim Nationalism - Cabinet Mission - Indian Independence Act - Radcliffe Line - Pakistan - Objectives Resolution - Yaum e Azadi
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| Organisation: | Muslim League
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| Leaders: | Sir Syed - Iqbal - Quaid-i-Azam - Liaquat Ali Khan - Bahadur Yar Jung - Abdur Rab Nishtar - Fatima Jinnah - Choudhary Rahmat Ali - Muhammad Ali Jouhar - Shaukat Ali - Zafar Ali Khan - Khawaja Nazimuddin - Abdul Qayyum Khan - Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy - Ghulam Ahmed Pervez - Shaukat Hayat Khan - Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan -
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| Activists: | ZA Suleri - Hameed Nizami - Altaf Husain - Yusuf Khattak - |
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