Identify the correct statements about the ‘Khilafat Movement’:
A. A Movement of Indian Muslims, led by Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali.
B. ‘Jazirat-ul-Arab’ (Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Palestine) must remain under Muslim sovereignty.
C. The Congress did not support the movement and Mahatma Gandhi sought to conjoin it to the Civil Disobedience Movement.
D. ‘Khalifa’ must be left with sufficient territory to enable him to defend the Islamic faith.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A, B and D only
A. A Movement of Indian Muslims, led by Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali. Correct. The Khilafat Movement (1919-1920) was a movement of Indian Muslims, led by the brothers Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali. It sought to restore the Caliphate, a symbol of Pan-Islamism.
B. ‘Jazirat-ul-Arab’ (Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Palestine) must remain under Muslim sovereignty. Correct. This was one of the three demands of the movement. The first was that the Khalifa must keep control over the Muslim sacred places of the old Ottoman empire.
C. The Congress did not support the movement and Mahatma Gandhi sought to conjoin it to the Civil Disobedience Movement. Incorrect. It is wrong on two counts: the Congress supported the movement, and Gandhiji sought to join it with the Non-cooperation Movement, hoping to bring Hindus and Muslims together in one struggle.
D. ‘Khalifa’ must be left with sufficient territory to enable him to defend the Islamic faith. Correct. This was the third demand of the movement.
NCERT (2025-26): “2. The Making and Unmaking of Non-cooperation … To further broaden the struggle he had joined hands with the Khilafat Movement that sought to restore the Caliphate, a symbol of Pan-Islamism which had recently been abolished by the Turkish ruler Kemal Attaturk.”
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