CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF DISCRIMINATION & EXCLUSION (CSDE)
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
Invites you to a talk on
Khilafat Movement and Transformation in Abul Kalam Azad (1912-1924): A Review
Dr. Rosina Nasir
Assistant Professor
Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Date: 31st March, 2017
Venue: Room No-402, SSS-I
Time: 3:00 pm
ABSTRACT: The Khilafat movement of 1919-1924 has always been seen as anti-colonial movement of the Muslims of India by Indian nationalists. Most of the studies of the Khilafat movement have depicted it as a Pan-Islamic supranational phenomenon on the ground of the British hostility to the Sultan of Turkey. There are numbers of unanswered gaps which are associated with this movement which has changed the character of Muslim politics in colonial India. This paper attempts to unravel that when, and how had pro-Turkish attitude originated in Indian Muslim politics, what had encourgaed Azad to support Khilafat movement, what was the stand of Muslim league on Khilafat movement and what was that situation which led to confluence of Khilafist and non-corporation movement led by Maulana Azad? Apart from it, this paper examines the concept of Universal Khalifa of Islam developed by Maulan Azad through his writing in Al-Hilal and its veracity through the text Quran and Hadiths. A pivotal question of this paper is to understand that what new attribute the confluence of Khilafat and non-corporation movement had brought to Hindu-Muslim unity which the Lucknow pact of 1916 between the Congress and Muslim league did not address and what had changed which made Azad to switch over from Pan-Islamic nationalism to the idea of Hindu-Muslims Unity.
