Why gandhiji supported the khilafat movement brainly?
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Gandhiji supported khilafat movement brainly by -
Britain defeated turkey in world war and removedo the existing Khalifa and introduced new one .It caused widespread anger among Muslims. Muslims began opposing British. Gandhi ji saw it as an golden opportunity to Unite both for struggle against British so he launched NCM in support of khilafat movement to get swaraj.
Following were the motives of Gandhi ji behind Khilafat Movement:
(i) The First World War ended with the defeat of Ottoman Turkey.
(ii) 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.
(iii) To defend the Khalifa's temporal powers, a Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in March 1919.
(iv) 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.
(v) Gandhiji saw this as an opportunity to bring Muslims under the umbrella of a unified movement called 'Khilafat and Non-cooperation Movement'.