Khilafat movement......
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The Khilafat Movement was a mass movement started by the Ali Brothers (Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali) and supported by Mahatma Gandhi. It was a revolt against the repressive nature of the British and their betrayal(Khilafa) towards the Ottoman Turkey and their Khalifa.
The British had promised the Islams of the Ottoman Turkey that they after capturing Turkey, they won't decrease the power of their Khalifa and let them rule their religion. However, nothing as such happened and they removed the Khalifa from the thrown.
The leaders joined forces with Mahatma Gandhi's noncooperation movement for Indian freedom, promising nonviolence in return for his support of the Khilafat movement. A campaign in defense of the caliphate was launched, led in India by the brothers Shaukat and Muḥammad ʿAlī and by Abul Kalam Azad. The goal of the movement was to preserve the Ottoman caliphate as the spiritual center of Islam despite the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I. The Khilafat or "caliphate" movement of 1919 to 1924 was a political and religious movement among Muslims in the British colony of India.