Several leaders and thinkers- having insight into the Hindu-Muslim question proposed separation of Muslim India. However, the most lucid exposition of thhe inner feelings of the Muslim community was given by Allama Muhammad Iqbal (1877- 1938) in his presidential address to the All-India Muslim League at Allahabad in 1930. He proposed a separate Muslim state at least in the Muslim majority regions of the north-west. Later on, in his correspondence with Quaid-i-Azam Mohanmad Ali Jinnah, he included the Muslim majority areas in the north-east also in his proposed Muslim state. Three years after his Allahabad address, a group of MU'slim students at Cambridge, headed by Chaudhry Rahmat Ali, issued a pamphlet "Now or Never" in which, drawing letters from the names of the Muslim majority regions they gave the nomenclature of Pakistan to the proposed state. Round Table Conferences.
