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Khilafat movement
The Khilafat movement was a political campaign of Muslims in British India against British policy towards Turkey and the planned dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War. Its leaders, among them Abul Kalam Azad and the brothers Mohammad Ali Jauhar and Shaukat Ali, formed the All India Khilafat Committee to protect the caliphate. In 1920 they allied with Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, and the Khilafatists became a major part of the Non-cooperation movement. Noted for promoting Hindu–Muslim unity, it faded after that campaign was called off in 1922, and Turkey's abolition of the caliphate in 1924 ended its cause.
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