Illusive Identity of Indian Muslim

Muslims in India launched a movement designed to pressurise the British government to preserve the boundaries of the Ottoman Empire as it had been in 1914 (Minault, 1982). According to Minault (1982), the Khilafat movement was the first and foremost movement led by a particular group of Indian Muslim leaders to bring their community together - politically using religious and cultural symbols. The Congress, in need of Muslim support at that critical period, had to listen to Muslim desire, recognize minority rights, and make some political concessions. At the end of the Second World War, the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League were also set on the part of this relation. Mahatma Gandhi supported Khilafat movement to unite Hindu and Muslims but Mohammed Ali Jinnah (Wells, 2005) opposed this movement and raised a point of order and gave his opinion that they had no right to dabble in the foreign politics of the Government (Niemeijer, 1972). Suddenly in 1922, the disobedient civil movement ended, and in 1924, the Caliphate was abolished, which hurt the sensibility of Indian Muslims very much (Moore, 1983) and left them high and dry.