Gandhi’s unilateral withdrawal at Chauri Chaura ended the Khilafat alliance

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’s Khilafat support empowered Hindu extremists and split the Congress; Gandhi allied the Congress Party with the Khilafat movement over the Ottoman caliphate. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 72

Broader Connections