##KHILAFAT MOVEMENT (1919-1924)##
The Khilafat movement was organised by the Ali Brothers( Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali) in protest against the injustice done to Turkey( which had fought against Britain), after the first world war Turkey was also the 'Caliph'( for khilafa) and was the head of muslims.The Khilafat leaders put pressure upon British government give better treatment to Turkey.Through this demand muslim were drawn into the national movement in large numbers. The movement become a part of national movement and the Congress leader joined it.

While the Rowlatt satyagraha had been a widespread movement, it was still limited mostly to cities and towns. Mahatma Gandhi now felt the need to launch a more broad-based movement in India. But he was certain that no such movement could be organised without bringing the Hindus and Muslims closer together. One way of doing this, he felt, was to take up the Khilafat issue. The First World War had ended with the defeat of Ottoman Turkey. And there were rumours that a harsh peace treaty was going to be imposed on the Ottoman emperor – the spiritual head of the Islamic world (the Khalifa). To defend the Khalifa’s temporal powers, a Khilafat Committee was formed in Bombay in March 1919. A young generation of Muslim leaders like the brothers Muhammad Ali and Shaukat Ali, began discussing with Mahatma Gandhi about the possibility of a united mass action on the issue. Gandhiji saw this as an opportunity to bring Muslims under the umbrella of a unified national movement. At the Calcutta session of the Congress in September 1920, he convinced other leaders of the need to start a non-cooperation movement in support of Khilafat as well as for swaraj.