Question

Khilafat Movement was started in

Answer 1

The Khilafat movement (1919–22) was a pan-Islamic, political protest campaign launched by Muslims of India to influence the British government not to abolish the Ottoman Caliphate.

Answer 2

Khilafat movement , force that arose in India in the early 20th century as a result of Muslim fears for the integrity of Islam . These fears were aroused by Italian (1911) and Balkan (1912–13) attacks on Turkey—whose sultan, as caliph , was the religious head of the worldwide Muslim community—and by Turkish defeats in World War I . They were intensified by the Treaty of Sèvres (August 1920), which not only detached all non-Turkish regions from the empire but also gave parts of the Turkish homeland to Greece and other non-Muslim powers.