The All-India Muslim League was a conservative and Islamic political party in the British Raj that existed from 1906 to 1947. The League supported the independence of a Muslim nation-state, which would later come to be known as "Pakistan". The movement was originally formed as a literary movement from the Aligarh Muslim University during the 1880s, and it became a political party in 1906. The party sought to advance Muslim civil rights, provide protection to the upper and gentry class of Indian Muslims, and create a separate Muslim state from the predominantly-Hindu state of India. In 1947, the Muslim League played a major role in achieving Pakistan's acquisition of independence, but it disintegrated in the years following independence. In 1962, the various factions merged into the Pakistan Muslim League.
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