In 1933, Rahmat Ali and other students produced a very popular pamphlet called ‘Now or Never’. The pamphlet argued that the subcontinent should be partitioned to provide a Muslim homeland and was an important step forward; • He also founded the Pakistan National Movement and campaigned for the idea of Pakistan, the name given to this separate homeland by Rahmat Ali and his followers; • By 1940 the Muslim League supported Rahmat Ali’s view that a separate Muslim homeland was needed; • Rahmat Ali was unpopular as he criticised other Muslim leaders including Jinnah over what he saw as the abandonment of Muslim communities in places such as Delhi as well as accepting a divided Bengal under the terms of partition in 1947.