why did Mahatma gandhi supported khilafat movement ?
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Mahatma Gandhi supported Khilafat movement.
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Mahatma Gandhi supported the Khilafat movement as an opportunity to unite the Hindu and Muslims and revolt against the British empire.
Khilafat movement was a movement led by the Muslims to extend their support to Caliphs after the Ottoman Empire fell. Extending the support towards Muslims would help in building brotherhood towards the Hindus and uniting for a cause.
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▪︎Rowlatt satvagraha had been a widespread movement, it was stil limited mostly to cities and towns.
▪︎Mahatma Gandhi felt the need to launch a broad-based movement in lndia. But he was certain that no such movement could be organised without bringing the Hindus and Muslims closer together,
▪︎The First World War had
ended with the defeat of Ottoman Turkey and there were rumours that a harsh peace treaty was going to be imposed on the Ottoman emperor (the spiritual head of the Islamic world ), the Khalifa .
▪︎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 Hindus and Muslims under the umbrella of a unified national movement.
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