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SUMMARY:Towards a religious internationalism? The Indian Khilafat Movement
  in interwar Europe - Dr Faridah Zaman (Oxford)
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CONTACT:Barbara Roe
DESCRIPTION:\nIn the history of anticolonial internationalism\, pan-Islami
 sm occupies a vexed position. Its history prior to the First World War\, p
 articularly in India\, suggested it could be a friend to nascent anticolon
 ial movements and a vehicle for a critique of European imperialism\; after
  the War\, it was vocally supported by India’s most famous anticolonial 
 leader and thinker\, M. K. Gandhi\, and mobilized Indian support in tandem
  with the Non-Cooperation Movement\, the first all-India nationalist mobil
 isation in British India. And yet\, its most high-profile demonstration 
 – the Indian Khilafat Movement (1919-24) – was a project that sought t
 o defend the integrity of the Ottoman Empire and Caliphate in the post-War
  settlement\, a goal seemingly out of step with the spirit of nationalist 
 self-determination that pervaded discussions about the future of empires i
 n this moment. The Khilafat Movement appears to sit uneasily\, too\, with 
 socialist and Communist projects of anticolonial internationalism in this 
 period. This paper revisits the immediate post-War period to ask whether t
 he Indian Khilafat Movement was really so much as odds with the spirit of 
 the 1920s as this account would suggest. It asks in particular whether the
  movement\, bound up in the preservation of a centuries’ old empire\, co
 uld be perceived as pursuing a form of anticolonial\, religious internatio
 nalism in this moment – one that transcended anxiety about the future of
  the Ottoman Empire and Caliphate and drove at broader issues of world-rem
 aking in the aftermath of war.\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1\, ground floor\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 Wes
 t Road\, Cambridge CB3 9DT
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