Question

The Khilafat Movement of the Indian Muslims related to ____________.

• A. Provision of separate electorate for the Muslims in the Act of $1919$
• B. Restoration of territories of Turkey captured by British in the First World War
• C. Restoration of the sultan of Turkey who was Caliph of the Muslim World
• D. Lifting of martial law in Punjab

Answer 1

The correct option is C Restoration of the sultan of Turkey who was Caliph of the Muslim World

The Khilafat movement 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. The leaders joined forces with Mahatma Gandhi’s noncooperation movement for Indian freedom, promising nonviolence in return for his support of the Khilafat movement. It had lost its relevance when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk had abolished the Caliphate.