The Lucknow Pact of 1916 was memorable in many ways. The partition of Bengal and its subsequent annulment in 1911 drew the Muslims closer to the Hindus. Though the Muslim League was formed in 1906 to give vent to communalism, the educated..
The period from 1885 to 1905 is known as the 'Era of Moderates'. It is only because Badruddin Tyabji, Ferozshah Mehta, P. Ananadacharlu, S. N. Banerjee, Ramesh Chandra Dutt, Anand Mohan Bose, Gala Krishna Cochlea. Mahadev Govind Ranade etc.
The differences between the 'moderates' and the 'extremists' are: The moderates had faith in gradual reforms whereas the nationalists believed that the swaraj is their birth right.