Enlighten the khilafat Movement with reference to Congress and Muslim league
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Khilafat Movement:-
- The Khilafat movement, also known as the Indian Muslim movement was a pan-Islamist political protest campaign launched by Muslims of British India
- it was led by Shaukat Ali, Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Hakim Ajmal Khan, and Abul Kalam Azad
- To restore the caliph of the Ottoman Caliphate, who was considered the leader of Sunni Muslims, as an effective political authority.
- It was a protest against the sanctions placed on the caliph and the Ottoman Empire after the First World War by the Treaty of Sèvres.
- The movement collapsed by late 1922 when Turkey gained a more favourable diplomatic position and moved towards secularism.
- By 1924 Turkey simply abolished the role of caliph.
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