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Explain the circumstances leading to the alliance between the Khilafat and Non-Cooperation Movements. Was it a politically wise step on the part of the Congress?

  • UPSC 2007
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

The Khilafat Movement (1919-24), a pan-Islamic protest over the treatment of the Ottoman Caliph, and the Non-Cooperation Movement, Gandhi's first all-India mass campaign, emerged from entirely separate grievances yet fused into a single agitation between 1919 and 1922.

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  • The Circumstances Leading to the Alliance
  • The Khilafat Grievance
  • The Common Ground with Indian Nationalism
  • The Formal Alliance
  • Was It Politically Wise? — The Case For
  • Was It Politically Wise? — The Case Against

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