What is khilafat movement ? how was it started ?
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The Khilafat Movement (1919 - 1924) was a major pan Islamic movement started to save the Ottoman Empire and it extended to India against the British power. During the World War - 1 ,Turkey helped Germany to war against British . Muslim leaders started The Khilafat movement to protest the allied act and to save Ottoman.
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The Khilafat movement, also known as the Indian Muslim movement (1919–24), was a pan-Islamist political protest campaign launched by Muslims of British India led by Shaukat Ali, Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Hakim Ajmal Khan,[1][2] and Abul Kalam Azad[3] to restore the caliph of the Ottoman Caliphate, who was considered the leader of Sunni Muslims, as an effective political authority. It was a protest against the sanctions placed on the caliph and the Ottoman Empire after the First World War by the Treaty of Sèvres.[4][5]
The movement collapsed by late 1922 when Turkey gained a more favourable diplomatic position and moved towards secularism. By 1924 Turkey simply abolished the role of caliph.[6]
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