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Khilafat movement

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Khilafat movement

Campaign by Indian Muslims after World War I to protect the office of khalifa from abolition by the British, and to protest against partition of Turkey under the Treaty of Sèvres 1920, which was seen as an organized attempt to eliminate all centres of Muslim power. It was the only time that Muslims and Hindus united in active anti-British alliance. The khalifa was the religious and temporal head of the Sunni branch of Islam, and was situated in Constantinople.

The episode was of the noncooperation movement in India during the early 1920s; Gandhi pushed Congress to support the Muslim cause. The movement disappeared when the office was abolished 1924 by the Turkish nationalist Kemal Atatürk, and the campaign ended in failure with bitter Hindu–Muslim recriminations.



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Ajmal Khan previously corresponded with the Father of Nation Mahatma Gandhi during the Khilafat Movement, a political campaign launched mainly by Muslims in South Asia in the aftermath of the World War I.
Following the Malabar Peasants Rebellion in 1921, which is also called the Khilafat Movement or Mopila Riots, which was an outburst of the emotion of the Muslim community of North Kerala in protest against the dismemberment of the Ottoman empire in the First World War and also in defiance of the Landlord System that prevailed at that time, the Kerala Muslim community was subjected to severe persecution.
And when Gandhiji started the Khilafat movement, with the idea that currently we are opposing the British and if Muslims join in then their support will help gain independence.
 
 
 
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