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Foreword Spanning from the end of the First World War to 1924, the Khilafat Movement was a pan-Islamic protest campaign on the part of certain Indian Muslims. It opposed the dismemberment of Turkey following its defeat in the war and sought to pressure the British government to safeguard the authority of the Ottoman Khilafat. The movement was spearheaded by the brothers Shaukat and Muhammad Ali and by Abul Kalam Azad and found support from various other Indian Muslim leaders including Maulana Mahmud al-Hasan, Barrister Jan Muhammad Junejo and Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari. Though the fate of Turkey was not directly related to the politics of India, its future was a cause of grave concern for the Muslims of the region as they viewed the Ottoman Khilafat as symbolising the political and temporal power of Islam, as well as the international unity of Muslims. In the initial stages of the movement, various