Congress allied with pan-Islamist Muslims to broaden its national coalition

Evidence

Independence leader Mohandas Gandhi saw advantage too in pan-Islamist sentiment and allied his Congress Party with the Khilafat movement that sought to prevent the victorious Allies from removing the caliph and dismembering the Ottoman empire. In 1924 the entire issue vanished when — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 72 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gandhi allied the Congress Party with the Khilafat movement over the Ottoman caliphate. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 72

Related

• Gandhi allied the Congress Party with the Khilafat movement over the Ottoman caliphate. (similarity 0.93)
• Gandhi’s Khilafat support empowered Hindu extremists and split the Congress (similarity 0.90)
• Gandhi’s unilateral withdrawal at Chauri Chaura ended the Khilafat alliance (similarity 0.86)
• The 1920 Congress allied with conservative Muslims to oppose the threatened Islamic Caliphate (similarity 0.82)
• Congress’s Muslim alliance alienated both Hindu extremists and moderate Muslims (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Gandhi allied the Congress Party with the Khilafat movement over the Ottoman caliphate. #exemplifies (0.80) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 72