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| Seeking to unite Hindus and Muslims, Gandhi joined the Ali brothers and Azad in organizing the KHILAFAT MOVEMENT to protest the treatment of the Turks by the victorious Allies. | 1 |
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| Death of Tilak, who had been pressing for further constitutional advances. On the same day, Gandhi, accompanied by the Ali brothers, began a nationwide speaking tour to enlist support for a great noncooperation movement, involving a boycott of foreign goods, schools, law courts, official functions, legislatures, and overseas military service. A special session of the congress at Calcutta (Sept. 4–9) approved Gandhi's program, and the regular session at Nagpur (Dec.) reaffirmed it, converted the congress into a mass organization under a hierarchy of full-time leaders, and defined its aim as “the attainment of swaraj (self-rule) by peaceful and legitimate means.” | 2 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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