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| Answer» Jaliyanvalabad event: Ali brothers- Mohammed Ali and Shaukat Ali organized the Khilafat Movement in order to protest against the inequalities done to the Turkish people who had protested against Britain after the First World War. Turkey was significant to the Muslims because the Sultan of Turkey was also known as the Khalifa who is also the spritual leader of the Muslims.The Khilafat administrators restraint the British government to treat turkey in the better way. Through this movement, Muslims were fascinated towards national movement in large numbers unitedly. The action becomes a part of the national movement. The Congress leaders participated in the agitation and promoted in organizing unity throughout the country.\xa0Khalifat movement: Jaliyanvalabad event: On 10th April 1919, two nationalist leaders- Dr Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr Satya Pal were arrested in Punjab under the infamous Rowlatt Act. On 13th April 1919, people gathered in a small park in Amritsar which was called the Jalllianwala Bagh, to protest against these arrests. The peaceful gathering was attended by men, women and children. General Dyer, a British military officer, stationed a regiment of soldiers at the only entrance of the park, declared the meeting illegal and without warning ordered his soldiers to fire. The firing lasted for ten minutes, till all the ammunition was exhausted. More than a thousand people were killed and over twice that number wounded. The massacre was worth calling genocide and it stunned the entire country. On 30th May 1919, Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood. Gandhi returned the Kaiser-i-Hind Gold medal given to him for his work during Boer War. | |