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Ali, Chaudhri Rahmat (1895-1951)
Statesman. The founder and leader of the Pakistan National Movement in 1933. He came from a family of small landowners and graduated from the University of Punjab. Starting in 1915, he published the journal 'The Crescent' for several years.

He received degrees from Cambridge and Dublin Universities. In 1930, Chaudhri proposed to establish an independent Muslim state in the northwest of British India. He named the proposed state 'Pakistan'. He visited Lahore and Karachi in 1948.

WORKS: 'Now or Never: Are We to Live or Perish Forever'? Cambridge, 1933; 'Pakistan, The Fatherland of the Pakistan Nation', Cambridge, 1947.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Ytt. V. Gankovsky, 'On the Origin of the Name Pakistan', Toponymy of the East, Moscow, 1969 (in Russian); Khan A. Ahmad, 'The Founder of Pakistan, Through Trial or Triumph', London, 1942; KK Aziz (ed.), 'Complete Works of Rahmat Ali', 2 Vols., Islamabad, 1979.