1. Explain how the Aligarh movement paved the way towards an independent homeland for the Muslims.

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

The Aligarh movement paved the way towards an independent homeland for the Muslims because the movement made possible the kind of education that made Muslims Indians think, reflect, and take action in order to demand their right to have a portion of the territory they could call home, where they could teach and live their religious principles.

We are talking about the time when Greta Britain ruled India in the 1800s. The movement originated in Northern India, specifically in the town of Aligarh. Here, in 1875, the Muhammadan College spread this knowledge and serve as the epicenter of the ideas that inspired Muslims to accomplish the division of India into two territories. For them, Pakistan, the territory for Muslim people.