Sequentially arrange the following events leading to the Partition of India.

(A) Direct Action Day.
(B) Coining of the name 'Pakistan' by Rehmat Ali.
(C) Pakistan Resolution by Muslim League.
(D) Mohammad lqbal's address to the Muslim League on the need for a 'North West India Muslim State.'

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

(D), (B), (C), (A)

The correct answer is Option (1) → (D), (B), (C), (A)

Here's the explanation for the order:

(D) Mohammad Iqbal's address to the Muslim League on the need for a 'North West India Muslim State': 1930

(B) Coining of the name 'Pakistan' by Rehmat Ali: 1933

(C) Pakistan Resolution by Muslim League: 1940

(A) Direct Action Day: 1946

So, the correct option is (1) (D), (B), (C), (A).

After withdrawing its support to the Cabinet Mission plan, the Muslim League decided on “Direct Action” for winning its Pakistan demand. It announced 16 August 1946 as “Direct Action Day”. On this day, riots broke out in Calcutta, lasting several days and leaving several thousand people dead. By March 1947 violence spread to many parts of northern India.

The name Pakistan or Pak-stan is coined by a Punjabi Muslim student at Cambridge, Choudhry Rehmat Ali in 1933. The name Pakistan or Pak-stan (from Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan) was coined by a Punjabi Muslim student at Cambridge, Choudhry Rehmat Ali, who, in pamphlets written in 1933 and 1935, desired a separate national status for this new entity. No one took Rehmat Ali seriously in the 1930s, least of all the League and other Muslim leaders who dismissed his idea merely as a student’s dream.

The Pakistan demand was formalised gradually. On 23 March 1940, the League moved a resolution demanding a measure of autonomy for the Muslim-majority areas of the subcontinent. This ambiguous resolution never mentioned partition or Pakistan.

The origins of the Pakistan demand have also been traced back to the Urdu poet Mohammad Iqbal, the writer of “Sare Jahan Se Achha Hindustan Hamara”. In his presidential address to the Muslim League in 1930, the poet spoke of a need for a “NorthWest Indian Muslim state”. Iqbal, however, was not visualising the emergence of a new country in that speech but a reorganisation of Muslim-majority areas in north-western India into an autonomous unit within a single, loosely structured Indian federation.