The Khilafat Movement
H2.7What the syllabus asks of you
- How successful was the Khilafat Movement in advancing the cause of the Pakistan Movement?
- What were the origins, aims and main features of the Khilafat Movement?
- Why did the Khilafat Movement fail?
- reasons for the rise of the Movement
- the objectives of the Khilafat Conference, 1918
- the Khilafat Conferences and delegations to England, 1919–21, and reasons for failure
- the causes, course and reasons for failure of the Hijrat Movement
- Gandhi and the Non-Cooperation Movement
- reasons for the failure of the Khilafat Movement
- the impact of the Khilafat and Hijrat Movements on Muslims in the subcontinent.
Read the notes first
Chapter 7: The Khilafat Movement
Drill this topic
All 3 questions on The Khilafat Movement, untimed — answer on paper, then mark yourself against the mark scheme.
Make a worksheet
Choose the years and how many questions, then print it with the answers on separate pages.
3 questions
These are structured questions, answered in working rather than by picking an option, so they are not listed here one by one. The drill above puts each in front of you with its mark scheme to check against.

