How did the non cooperation movement get linked with the khilafat movement?
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During 1919-22, the British were opposed through two mass movements—the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation. ... The Khilafat issue was not directly linked to Indian politics but it provided the immediate background to the movement and gave an added advantage of cementing Hindu-Muslim unity against the British.
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After the Rowlatt Satyagrah, Gandhiji felt the need to launch a more broad based movement in India. But he was certain that no such movement could be launched without bringing the Hindus and Muslims closer together. One way of doing this, he felt, was to take up the Khilafat issue. To defend the Khalifa's temporal powers, a Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in March 1919. A young generation of Muslim leaders like the brothers Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali, began discussing with Mahatma Gandhi about the possibility of a United mass action on the issue. Gandhiji saw this as an opportunity to bring Muslims under the umbrella of a unified national movement. So at the Calcutta session of the Congress in September 1920, he convinced other leaders of the need to start a NON-COOPERATION movement in support of Khilafat as well as Swaraj. Thus at the Nagpur Session of Congress in December 1920 a NON-COOPERATION Khilafat Program was adopted.