INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Khilafat Movement was organized by the Ali brothers-Shaukat and Muḥammad Ali to protest against the injustice done to Turkey. It was an agitation by Indian Muslims, allied with Indian nationalists, to pressure the British government to preserve the authority of the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph of Islam after World War I.

Detailed explanation-2: -A campaign in defense of the caliphate was launched, led in India by the brothers Shaukat and Muḥammad ʿAlī and by Abul Kalam Azad.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Khilafat committee was formed to defend the powers of the Ottoman Caliph which was restricted following the Treaty of Sevres at the end of World War I. It was the nucleus of the Khilafat movement started under the leadership of Mohammed Ali, Shaukat Ali, Maulana Azad, Hakim Ajmal Khan and Hasrat Mohani.