The Muslim Nationalist Party was a political party in pre-independence India

India

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, whose most prominent leader was Asaf Ali

Asaf Ali

Asaf Ali was an Indian independence fighter and noted Indian lawyer. He was the first ambassador from India to the United States. He also worked as the governor of Orissa....

. The party was founded on grounds of support for the Indian independence movement

Indian independence movement

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 and opposition to the All India Muslim League and the partition of India

Partition of India

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. The party did not explicitly support or associate itself with the Indian National Congress

Indian National Congress

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, but did endorse secularism

Secularism

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and a united India.