Question

what is khilafat movement?

Answer 1

Gandhi ji after Rowlatt Satyagraha wanted to launch a more broad based movement which could be possible only if Hindu and muslim come closer so he decided to take up the Khilafat issue . Ottoman was the ruler.There were rumours that a harsh peace treaty is going to impose
So two brothers Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali with Gandhiji started the non cooperation khilafat movement
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Answer 2

The Khilafat movement (1919-1924) was an agitation by Indian Muslims allied with Indian nationalism in the years following World War I. Its purpose was to pressure the British government to preserve the authority of the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph of Islam following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the war. Integral to this was the Indian Muslims’ desire to influence the treaty-making process following the war in such a way as to restore the 1914 boundaries of the Ottoman Empire, even though the Turks, allies of the Central Powers, had been defeated in the war. Indian supporters of the Khilafat cause sent a delegation to London in 1920 to plead their case, but the British government treated the delegates as quixotic pan-Islamists, and did not change its policy toward Turkey. The Indian Muslims’ attempt to influence the provisions of the Treaty of Sevres thus failed, and the European powers, most notably Great Britain and France, went ahead with territorial adjustments, including the institution of mandates over formerly Ottoman Arab territories.