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In March 1940 Jinnah passed what would come to be known as the “ Pakistan Resolution ,” declaring “ Muslims are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory and their State .” This state was to be known as Pakistan, meaning “ Land of the Pure .” Nehru angrily declared that “ all the old problems ... pale into insignificance before the latest stand taken by the Muslim League leader in Lahore .” Linlithgow made Nehru an offer on 8 October 1940.

It stated that Dominion status for India was the objective of the British government.

However, it referred neither to a date nor method of accomplishment.

Only Jinnah got something more precise.

" The British would not contemplate transferring power to a Congress-dominated national government the authority of which was ” denied by large and powerful elements in India ’ s national life .”