
An 18-member Foundation Committee was formed which met on 29 October, 1920 and announced the establishment of Jamia Millia Islamia. It was not accepted, as a result of which it was decided to establish an educational institution whose objective would be to fulfill the community’s academic needs. Some of the College alumni, notably Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar, appealed the College administration to stop taking government assistance keeping in view the larger interest of the nation. Rejection of financial support from the governmentīoycott of foreign goods and government’s products, andĭuring those days, Shaikhul Hind Maulana Mahmud Hasan issued religious rulings substantiated with the Qur’an and Hadith in support of the Movement whose echoes were heard even in Aligarh where the Muhammadan Anglo Oriental (MAO) College functioned with the financial support of the British government. Resignation from the British government jobs

Resignation from membership of education councils Among the salient points of the Movement were: Eight months following a conference of the Non-Cooperation Movement held in Calcutta in February 1920, in a conference of the Congress Committee Mahatma Gandhi declared his support for the Khilafat Movement under whose leadership the Non-Cooperation Movement took off.
