Q.3 What was the Khilafat Movement?
Ans: The Khilafat Movement, (1919-1920) was a movement of Indian Muslims, led by Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali, that demanded the following:
- The Turkish Sultan or Khalifa must retain control over the Muslim sacred places in the erstwhile Ottoman empire; the jazirat-ul-Arab (Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Palestine) must remain under Muslim sovereignty; and the Khalifa must be left with sufficient territory to enable him to defend the Islamic faith.
- The Congress supported the movement and Mahatma Gandhi sought to conjoin it to the Non-cooperation Movement.
| Source : Book NCERT Theme 3 : Chapter : Page Number 350 : |
| Extra Info : FIRST PHASE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT IN INDIA AND ABROAD The rift between the moderates and extremists grew wider and wider within the Congress.The Extremists were in favour of boycott of the assembly electionsThe moderates wanted to participate in the electoral processFinally, the rift resulted in the split in the CongressThe extremist leaders continued to mobilise the masses while the Congress tried to influence the government policies. Shyamji Krishnaverma had started in 1905 a centre for Indian students in London called India House. Madanlal Dhingra assassinated the India Office bureaucrat Curzon-Wyllie in London in 1909.Sikhs began the Ghadr Movement in 1913 in the city of San Francisco. The First World War began in 1914, and the revolutionaries saw in this a very good opportunity in pushing through their agenda of complete independence |