Independence leader Mohandas Gandhi saw advantage too in pan-Islamist sentiment and allied his Congress Party with the Khilafat movement that sought to prevent the victorious Allies from removing the caliph and dismembering the Ottoman empire. In 1924 the entire issue vanished when

XREF: Connects to anti-colonial solidarity and how nationalist movements borrowed transnational religious causes.

Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon F…, loc. 72