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What is khilafat agitation? |
| Answer» \tKhilafat movement was a political campaign launched mainly by Muslims in South Asia to influence the British government and to protect the Ottoman Empire after World War I.\tIn 1920 the movement gained force after the Treaty of Sèvres, which solidified the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.\tIndian Muslims were keen that the Khalifa be allowed to retain control over Muslim sacred places in the erstwhile Ottoman Empire.\tThe leaders of the Khilafat agitation, Mohammad Ali and Shaukat Ali, now wished to initiate a full-fledged Non-Cooperation Movement.\tGandhiji supported the movement and asked the Congress to campaign against the Jallianwala massacre and demand for Swaraj. | |