Question

Evaluate the response of Muslims to Gandhiji's call for Civil Disobedience Movement.

Answer 1

Muslim political groups were also lukewarm in their response to the Civil Disobedience Movement.
After the decline of the Non Cooperation -Khilafat movement started , there was a atmosphere of suspicion and distrust between communities.
Alienated from the Congress large sections of Muslims could not respond to the call for a united struggle.
Many Muslim leaders and intellectualls expressed their concern about the status of Muslims as a minority within India.
They feared that the culture and identity of minorities would be submerged under the domination of Hindu majority.