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.
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