Some prominent pirs from Sindh also supported the Khilafat Movement while in Punjab the pirs remained loyal to the British. Many activists were incarcerated. The conservative Muslim elite kept ...

THIS is apropos of Asghar Ali Engineer's article 'Role of ulema, Congress and freedom movement' (Encounter, April 25) in which he claims “The Khilafat Movement also has been grossly misunderstood.

Mr. Shaukat Ali in commending the resolution to the meeting declared that true Moslems were determined in their support of the Khilafat movement. Mr. Shaukat Ali appealed to Moslems to act with ...

s first truly pan-Indian movement, the Khilafat-Non-Cooperation struggle. The Khilafat-Non-Cooperation is generally regarded as the Part I of a trilogy, the Civil Disobedience movement and the Quit ...

The Khilafat movement, involving Muslims against the British empire's activities in Turkey, was launched in Lucknow in 1919. Thousands of Muslims joined the stir. The movement was so powerful that ...

Among the attendees of the first conference was poet, writer, freedom fighter and Khilafat Movement leader Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar (1878-1931). Though fragile due to illness, the journalist in ...

THIS is apropos of Asghar Ali Engineer's article 'Role of ulema, Congress and freedom movement' (Encounter, April 25) in which he claims “The Khilafat Movement also has been grossly misunderstood.