Khilafat Movement [1919-1924]
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Maulana Muhammad Ali and Maulana Shaukat Ali launched the Khilafat Movement |
The Lucknow pact showed that it was possible for middle-class, English-educated Muslims and Hindus to arrive at an amicable settlement of Hindu-Muslim constitutional and political problems. The Hindu-Muslim unity reached its climax during the Khilafat and the Non-cooperation Movements.
Maulana
Muhammad Ali and Maulana Shaukat Ali launched the Khilafat
Movement The Muslims of South Asia,
under the leadership of the Ali Brothers, Maulana Muhammad Ali and
Maulana Shaukat Ali launched the historic Khilafat Movement after
the First World War to protect the Ottoman Empire from
dismemberment, Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi linked the issue of
Swaraj with the Khilafat issue to associate the Hindus with the
Movement. The ensuing movement was the first country-wide popular
movement.
Gandhi linked
the issue of Swaraj with the Khilafat
Movement The Muslims of India, for
many reasons had a strong feeling of identity with the world
community of Islam. They had seen the decline in the political
fortunes of Islam as the Europeans powers conquered the Muslim land
one after the other. The Anglo-Russian convention of 1908 had
reduced their next door neighbor Iran to a mere dependency.
Afghanistan also suffered as it was a bone of contention between
Russia and Great Britain, and was now under the latter’s sphere of
influence. The general impression among the Muslims of India was that the
Western power were waging a war against Islam throughout the world
to rob it of all its power and influence. The Ottoman Empire was the
only Muslim power which had maintained a semblance of authority and
the Muslims of India wanted to save the Islamic political power from
extinction.
