Gandhi’s Khilafat support empowered Hindu extremists and split the Congress

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 (#expands, 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; Gandhi’s unilateral withdrawal at Chauri Chaura ended the Khilafat alliance

Related

• Gandhi’s unilateral withdrawal at Chauri Chaura ended the Khilafat alliance (similarity 0.96)
• Gandhi allied the Congress Party with the Khilafat movement over the Ottoman caliphate. (similarity 0.94)
• Congress allied with pan-Islamist Muslims to broaden its national coalition (similarity 0.90)
• Gandhi’s Khilafat support alienated conservative Hindus and moderate Muslims alike (similarity 0.84)
• Congress’s Muslim alliance alienated both Hindu extremists and moderate Muslims (similarity 0.83)
• Gandhi’s Khilafat support aimed to morally transform the British Empire internationally (similarity 0.79)
• Gandhi’s unilateral halt of satyagraha after Chauri Chaura fractured Muslim alliance (similarity 0.79)
• The 1920 Congress allied with conservative Muslims to oppose the threatened Islamic Caliphate (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Gandhi allied the Congress Party with the Khilafat movement over the Ottoman caliphate. #expands (0.70) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 72
• Gandhi’s unilateral withdrawal at Chauri Chaura ended the Khilafat alliance #complicates (0.60)