Mahatma Gandhi, who started his political career in India with the short-lived crusade against the Rowlatt Act, had, according to Dr Ambedkar, “ startled the people of India by his pledge to win Swaraj within six months”. And “ Hindu-Muslim” concinnity was one of the “ condition precedents” laid down by him. Dr Ambedkar further says “ The (Khilafat) movement was started by the What Is Khilafat Movement Mohammedans. It was taken up by Mr Gandhi with tenacity and faith, which might have surprised numerous Mohammedans themselves. There were numerous people who misdoubted the ethical base of the Khilafat movement and tried to inhibit Mr Gandhi taking any part in the Movement the ethical base of which was so questionable.
One among those who
misdoubted the sense of Gandhiji’s trial was Dr Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, the
author of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). Once he indeed met Gandhiji
and asked him “ As a matter of fact, we've in Bharat people belonging to
different faiths like Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Zoroastrianism and
Judaism. So, rather of talking about the concinnity of all these people, what's
the explanation behind speaking only of Hindu-Muslim concinnity?” What Is Khilafat Movement Gandhiji
riposted “ Through this, my idea is to produce a love for this nation in the
minds of Muslims then, and do n’t you see the spectacle of their fighting
shoulder to shoulder with others for India’s freedom?” Doctorji, who wasn't
satisfied with this answer, again said “ Indeed before this watchword was
chased, numerous Muslims like Barrister Jinnah, Ansari, Hakim Ajmal Khan,etc.
were active under the leadership of Lokmanya Tilak in the freedom movement. And
I sweat this watchword will produce divisive tendencies in the minds of
Muslims.” Gandhiji suddenly wound up the meeting saying “ I do n’t have similar
fear.
What was the appreciation of Pandit Nehru of the Khilafat Movement? “ Owing to the elevation given to the Khilafat movement in 1921, a large number of Moulvies and Muslim religious leaders took a prominent part in the political struggle. They gave a definite religious tincture to the Movement, and Muslims generally were greatly told by it. What Is Khilafat Movement Numerous a Westernised Muslim, who wasn't of a particularly religious turn of mind, began to grow a beard and else conform to the tenets of Orthodoxy. The influence and prestige of the Moulvies, which had been gradationally declining owing to new ideas and a progressive Westernisation, began to grow again and dominate the Muslim community. The Ali sisters, themselves of a religious turn of mind, helped in this process, and so did Gandhiji, who paid the topmost regard to the Moulvies and Moulanas.
DrM.G.S. Narayanan,
former Chairman, ICHR, New Delhi, exfoliate light on why and how the
computations of Gandhiji went wrong and the disastrous turn the movement took “
Gandhiji was politically innocent at that time to assume in the environment of
British India that the poor and illiterate Muslim community in India could be
drawn into an active political struggle against the British power fluently. To
please the Muslims, he supported the case of the dying Khilafat that the
British had done down within Turkey at the close of the First What Is Khilafat Movement World War.
Latterly Mahatma Gandhi rued this idiocy in financing the Khilafat, but it was
too late by that time — the damage was done. Rather of blarneying Muslims into
social reform and ultramodern education, the Khilafat had legitimised their
conservative religious instincts and roused their fears and reservations about
the outside world. It strengthened their communalism, which thrived on
abomination against the Hindu Kafirs, lying dormant from the days of Alauddin
Khilji and Aurangazeb.