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The '''Anjuman-i-Watan, Baluchistan''' ({{lang-bal|{{nq|انجمن وطن بلوچستان}}}}), commonly called '''Anjuman-i-Watan''', was a political party in [[British Raj|British India]] based in the province of [[Baluchistan (Chief Commissioner's Province)|Baluchistan]].<ref name="QasmiRobb2017">{{cite book |last1=Qasmi |first1=Ali Usman |last2=Robb |first2=Megan Eaton |title=Muslims against the Muslim League: Critiques of the Idea of Pakistan |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781108621236 |page=2 |language=English}}</ref> It was led by [[Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai]].<ref name="Mathur1972">{{cite book |last1=Mathur |first1=Yaduvansh Bahadur |title=Muslims and changing India |url=https://archive.org/details/muslimschangingi0000math |url-access=registration |date=1972 |publisher=Trimurti Publications |page=[https://archive.org/details/muslimschangingi0000math/page/275 275] |language=English}}</ref>

It was a member of the [[All India Azad Muslim Conference]] and [[opposition to the partition of India|opposed]] the [[partition of India]].<ref name="Ali2017">{{cite web |last1=Ali |first1=Afsar |title=Partition of India and Patriotism of Indian Muslims |url=http://www.milligazette.com/news/15756-partition-of-india-and-patriotism-of-indian-muslims |publisher=[[The Milli Gazette]] |language=English |date=17 July 2017|quote=The Conference had organized a meeting to oppose Pakistan resolution, on April 27, 1940 in Delhi, which in every aspect was a much more representative organization of Muslim opinion from all over the country than the Muslim League session held a month back at Lahore. The major Muslim organizations represented in the Conference were –All India Jamiat Ulama, All India Momin Conference, All India Majlis-e-Ahrar,All India Shia Political Conference, Khudai Khidmatgars, Bengal Krishak Proja Party, All India Muslim Parliamentary Board, The Anjuman-e-Watan (Baluchistan), All India Muslim Majlis, and Jamiat Ahl-e-Hadees.}}</ref>

The Anjuman-i-Watan allied itself with the [[Indian National Congress]] and also worked with the [[Anjuman-e-Ittehad-e-Balochan-wa-Balochistan]], as well as its successor, the [[Kalat State National Party]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Indian National Congress |date=1940 |publisher=All India Congress Committee |page=90 |language=English |quote=The Anjuman-i-Watan expressed a desire to be converted into a Congress Committee and affiliated to the Indian National Congress.}}</ref><ref name="Talbot1988">{{cite book |last1=Talbot |first1=Ian |title=Provincial Politics and the Pakistan Movement: The Growth of the Muslim League in North-west and North-east India 1937-47 |date=1988 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195773873 |page=117 |language=English}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Opposition to the partition of India]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Political parties in India]]
[[Category:History of Balochistan]]

Anjuman-i-Watan Baluchistan - Revision history

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