I. To rouse anti-British feelings among the Muslims of India
II. To reform the Muslim society
III. To demand separate electorates and preserve the Khilafat
IV. To save the Ottoman empire and preserve the Khilafat.
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes: (UPSC Prelims 1993)
Answer: I and IV
Notes: The Khilafat movement was an agitation by Indian Muslims allied with Indian nationalism in the years following World War I. Its purpose was to pressure the British government to preserve the authority of the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph of Islam following the breakup of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the war. In 1920, they published the Khilafat Manifesto, which called upon the British to protect the caliphate and for Indian Muslims to unite and hold the British accountable for this purpose.
