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The Khilafat committee was formed in Bombay, to defend temporal powers of Khalifa, in _________.
June 1919
July 1919
March 1919
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March 1919
The Khilafat Committee was formed in March 1919 in Bombay under the leadership of prominent figures like the Ali brothers (Maulana Shaukat Ali and Maulana Mohammad Ali), Maulana Azad, and Hasrat Mohani. The primary objective of this committee was to defend the temporal powers and status of the Khalifa (Caliph) of the Ottoman Empire, which was threatened by the British after World War I.
The Khilafat Committee was formed in March 1919 in Bombay under the leadership of prominent figures like the Ali brothers (Maulana Shaukat Ali and Maulana Mohammad Ali), Maulana Azad, and Hasrat Mohani. The primary objective of this committee was to defend the temporal powers and status of the Khalifa (Caliph) of the Ottoman Empire, which was threatened by the British after World War I.
The Khilafat movement subsequently merged with the Non-Cooperation Movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi in September 1920 at the Calcutta special session, representing a monumental phase of Hindu-Muslim unity in the Indian freedom struggle.
The Khilafat Committee was established in Bombay in March 1919.
The movement was organized to protest the harsh terms imposed on the Ottoman Empire and its Khalifa after World War I by the Allied powers.
Key leaders included Maulana Shaukat Ali, Maulana Mohammad Ali, Abul Kalam Azad, and Hasrat Mohani.
An All-India Khilafat Conference was subsequently held in Delhi in November 1919, where Mahatma Gandhi was elected as its president.
The movement served as a crucial platform for forging Hindu-Muslim alliance against British colonial rule during the early 19