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
Related
- Gandhi’s Khilafat support empowered Hindu extremists and split the Congress (similarity 0.96)
- Gandhi allied the Congress Party with the Khilafat movement over the Ottoman caliphate. (similarity 0.93)
- Congress allied with pan-Islamist Muslims to broaden its national coalition (similarity 0.86)
- Gandhi’s unilateral halt of satyagraha after Chauri Chaura fractured Muslim alliance (similarity 0.81)
- Gandhi’s Khilafat support alienated conservative Hindus and moderate Muslims alike (similarity 0.80)
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