Define khilafat movement
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The Khilafat movement was a very important event in the political history of India. The Muslims of India had a great regard for the Khilafat (Caliphate) which was held by the Ottoman Empire. During World War I, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) joined the war in favour of Germany. But Turkey and Germany lost the war and a pact commonly known as Istanbul Accord was concluded between the Allied Forces on 3rd November 1918. According to this Pact the territories of Turkey were to be divided among France, Greece and Britain.
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the kalilafat movement (1919-1924) was an agitation by indian Muslim allied with
India nationalism in the year following world war 1 it's purpose was pressure the British government to preserve the authority of the ottoman sultan as a caliph of Islam following the breakup of the ottoman at the end of the war