UPPSC 2016 General Studies I Solved Paper

(a) Maulana Mohammad Ali and Saukat Ali were the prominent leaders of the ‘Khilafat Movement’.It was the pan-Islamic movement.They also participated in the non cooperation movement of Gandhiji. In the Khilafat Movement, the Indian Muslims allied with the Indian nationalists to pressurise the British government to preserve the authority of the Ottoman Sultan as Caliph of Islam after World War I.