Statement I : Gandhiji failed to realise that the Khilafat was an extra-territorial issue.

Question

The following questions consist of two statements, Statement I and Statement II. You are to examine these two statments carefully and select the answers to these items using the codes given below 

Codes 

(a) Both the statements are true and Statement II is the correct explanation of Statement I 

(b) Both the statements are true, but Statement II is not the correct explanation of Statment I 

(c) Statement I is true, but Statement II is false 

(d) Statement II is false, but Statement II is true

Statement I : Gandhiji failed to realise that the Khilafat was an extra-territorial issue. 

Statement II : The cause of Khilafat was discredited by 1923, as Mustafa Kamal Pasha set-up a secular republican Government in Turkey.

Answer 1

(a) The Government created commissions and commissions on one another with an undeclared motive of creating mutual apprehensions and mistrusts. It was the time when the top leaders including Gandhi were failed to understand the political implications of his extensions of support to the cause of Khilafat. Practically, the leaders of Khilafat needed support of Gandhiji only for a defined particular purpose.