Question

Why was the Khilafat Movement started and who initiated this movement in India?
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Answer 1

♣ QUESTION :-

Why was the Khilafat Movement started and who initiated this movement in India ?

♣ ANSWER :-

• The Khilafat Movement was launched by Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali.

• Gandhiji saw this as an opportunity to bring Muslims under the umbrella of a unified national movement.

• At the Calcutta Session of the Congress in September 1920, he convinced other leaders to start a Non-Cooperation Movement in support of Khilafat Movement.

• The Khilafat Movement (1919-1924), was a pan-Islamic, political protest campaign launched by Muslims in British India to influence the British Government and to protect the Ottoman empire during the aftermath of First World War.

• The First World War had ended with the defeat of Ottoman Turkey.

• There was a fear that the power of the spiritual head of the Islamic world (Khalifa) would be curtailed.

• To defend his power, a Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in 1919.

• The Khilafat leaders put pressure upon the British Government to give better treatment to Turkey.