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    The Khilafat Movement emerged in South Asia in response to concerns about the fate of the Ottoman Caliphate after World War 1. Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar and other Muslim leaders formed the All India Khilafat Committee in Lucknow to build political unity among Muslims and pressure the British to protect the Caliphate. In 1920, they published the Khilafat Manifesto and allied with the Indian National Congress in a nationwide non-cooperation movement of peaceful civil disobedience. However, the movement collapsed after the abolition of the Caliphate in 1924.

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    The Khilafat Movement emerged in South Asia in response to concerns about the fate of the Ottoman Caliphate after World War 1. Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar and other Muslim leaders formed the All India Khilafat Committee in Lucknow to build political unity among Muslims and pressure the British to protect the Caliphate. In 1920, they published the Khilafat Manifesto and allied with the Indian National Congress in a nationwide non-cooperation movement of peaceful civil disobedience. However, the movement collapsed after the abolition of the Caliphate in 1924.

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    The Khilafat Movement emerged in South Asia in response to concerns about the fate of the Ottoman Caliphate after World War 1. Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar and other Muslim leaders formed the All India Khilafat Committee in Lucknow to build political unity among Muslims and pressure the British to protect the Caliphate. In 1920, they published the Khilafat Manifesto and allied with the Indian National Congress in a nationwide non-cooperation movement of peaceful civil disobedience. However, the movement collapsed after the abolition of the Caliphate in 1924.

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    Khilafat Movement - Wikipedia

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    The Khilafat Movement emerged in South Asia in response to concerns about the fate of the Ottoman Caliphate after World War 1. Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar and other Muslim leaders formed the All India Khilafat Committee in Lucknow to build political unity among Muslims and pressure the British to protect the Caliphate. In 1920, they published the Khilafat Manifesto and allied with the Indian National Congress in a nationwide non-cooperation movement of peaceful civil disobedience. However, the movement collapsed after the abolition of the Caliphate in 1924.

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    Khilafat Movement in South

    Asia
    Although political activities and popular
    outcry on behalf of the caliphate emerged
    across the Muslim world, the most
    prominent activities took place in India. A
    prominent Oxford educated Muslim
    journalist, Maulana Muhammad Ali Johar
    had spent four years in prison for
    advocating resistance to the colonial
    government and support for the caliphate.
    At the onset of the Turkish War of
    Independence, Muslim religious leaders
    feared for the caliphate, which the
    European powers were reluctant to
    protect. To some of the Muslims of India,
    the prospect of being conscripted to fight
    against fellow Muslims in Turkey was
    anathema.[9] To its founders and followers,
    the Khilafat was not a religious movement
    but rather a show of solidarity with their
    fellow Muslims in Turkey.[10]

    Mohammad Ali and his brother Maulana


    Shaukat Ali joined with other Muslim
    leaders such as Pir Ghulam Mujaddid
    Sarhandi Sheikh Shaukat Ali Siddiqui, Dr.
    Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, Raees-Ul-
    Muhajireen Barrister Jan Muhammad
    Junejo, Hasrat Mohani, Syed Ata Ullah
    Shah Bukhari, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    and Dr. Hakim Ajmal Khan to form the All
    India Khilafat Committee. The
    organisation was based in Lucknow, India
    at Hathe Shaukat Ali, the compound of
    Landlord Shaukat Ali Siddiqui. They aimed
    to build political unity amongst Muslims
    and use their influence to protect the
    caliphate. In 1920, they published the
    Khilafat Manifesto, which called upon the
    British to protect the caliphate and for
    Indian Muslims to unite and hold the
    British accountable for this purpose.[11]
    The Khilafat Committee in Bengal included
    Mohmmad Akram Khan, Manruzzaman
    Islamabadi, Mujibur Rahman Khan and
    Chittaranjan Das.[12]
    In 1920 an alliance was made between
    Khilafat leaders and the Indian National
    Congress, the largest political party in
    India and of the nationalist movement.
    Congress leader Mohandas Gandhi and
    the Khilafat leaders promised to work and
    fight together for the causes of Khilafat
    and Swaraj. Seeking to increase pressure
    on the colonial government, the
    Khilafatists became a major part of the
    non-cooperation movement — a
    nationwide campaign of mass, peaceful
    civil disobedience. Some also engaged in
    a protest emigration from North-West
    Frontier Province to Afghanistan under
    Amanullah Khan.[13] Khilafat leaders such
    as Dr. Ansari, Maulana Azad and Hakim
    Ajmal Khan also grew personally close to
    Gandhi. These leaders founded the Jamia
    Millia Islamia in 1920 to promote
    independent education and social
    rejuvenation for Muslims.[14]

    The non-cooperation campaign was at


    first successful. The programme started
    with boycott of legislative councils,
    government schools, colleges and foreign
    goods. Government functions and
    surrender of titles and distinctions.
    Massive protests, strikes and acts of civil
    disobedience spread across India. Hindus
    and Muslims joined forces in the
    campaign, which was initially peaceful.
    Gandhi, the Ali brothers and others were
    swifly arrest by the colonial government.
    Under the flag of Tehrik-e-Khilafat, a
    Punjab Khilafat deputation comprising
    Moulana Manzoor Ahmed and Moulana
    Lutfullah Khan Dankauri took a leading role
    throughout India, with a particular
    concentration in the Punjab (Sirsa, Lahore,
    Haryana etc.).

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    Although holding talks with the colonial
    government and continuing their activities,
    the Khilafat movement weakened as

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