Previous Year Question

Mahatma Gandhi believed that a broad-based national movement against British rule required closer cooperation between Hindus and Muslims.

NCERT's Nationalism in India explicitly explains that Gandhi felt such a mass movement could not be organised without bringing Hindus and Muslims closer together. He therefore decided to take up the Khilafat issue, viewing it as an opportunity to bring Muslims within a unified national movement.

Gandhi saw the Khilafat Movement as an opportunity to unite
Hindus and Muslims against British rule. In 1920, an alliance developed between the Khilafat leadership and the Congress, and the movement became associated with Gandhi's Non-Cooperation Movement.