Editing Pakistan Movement (section)

===Muslim minority provinces of British India===
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The idea of Pakistan received overwhelming support from Muslim minority provinces of British India, specially the Muslim cultural heartland of U.P. The [[Muslim League (Opposition)|Muslim League]] was known to gain its first foothold in the [[United Provinces (1937–1950)|United Provinces]], from where it derived a substantial portion of its leadership.<ref>Dhulipala, Venkat (2015).&nbsp;[https://books.google.com/books?id=PrqLBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA496 ''Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India'']. Cambridge University Press. p.&nbsp;496.&nbsp;{{ISBN|978-1-316-25838-5}}. "The idea of Pakistan may have had its share of ambiguities, but its dismissal as a vague emotive symbol hardly illuminates the reasons as to why it received such overwhelmingly popular support among Indian Muslims, especially those in the 'minority provinces' of British India such as U.P."</ref><ref name="AhmadRafiq2016">{{cite book |author1=Ishtiaq Ahmad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nzMlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA127 |title=Pakistan's Democratic Transition: Change and Persistence |author2=Adnan Rafiq |date=3 November 2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-23595-8 |pages=127– |access-date=8 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714144656/https://books.google.com/books?id=nzMlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA127 |archive-date=14 July 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Talbot |first1=Ian |year=1982 |title=The growth of the Muslim League in Punjab, 1937–1946 |journal=Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=5–24 |doi=10.1080/14662048208447395 |quote=Despite their different viewpoints all these theories have tended either to concentrate on the All-India struggle between the Muslim League and the Congress in the pre-partition period or to turn their interest to the Muslim cultural heartland of the UP where the League gained its earliest foothold and where the demand for Pakistan was strongest.}}</ref>