khilafat
Noun
Meaning
khilafat (plural khilafats)
caliphate
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Examples
It was led by Dr Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari, and organised by Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, later the one who led the Khilafat Movement along with his brother Maulana Shaukat Ali.
But when Gandhiji supported the Khilafat movement in 1919, Jinnah opposed him.
Similarly, when describing the Khilafat Movement, the book uses ‘Congress’ and ‘Hindu’ interchangeably.
The indigenous political movements – the Khilafat, the Congress, the Akalis - had given new dimension to the nationalist struggle.
You have example of Kerala where Moplah violence against Hindus in 1920s after failure of Khilafat resulted in thousands of murders, violence, rapes and conversions.
He believed that the British government was not being honest in its dealings with Muslims on the Khilafat issue.