Khilāfat movement - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Minault, Gail
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The Khilāfat movement (1919-24) was an agitation by some Indian Muslims, allied with the Indian nationalist movement, during the years following the First World War. Its purpose was to pressure the British government to preserve the authority of the Ottoman sultan as caliph of Islam. Integral to this purpose was the Muslims' desire to influence the treaty-making process following the war in such a way as to restore the 1914 boundaries of the Ottoman Empire, even though the Turks, allies of the Central Powers, had been defeated and