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Muslims, like all other Indians, owed their allegiance to the British Rulers. That was the period when the process of the decline and erosion of the Turkish Empire was being hastened by the design of imperialist power. At that time France had already seized the Ottoman provinces of Algeria and Tunisia and was moving to take over Morocco. The British were firmly entrenched in Egypt. Now the Italian sought European support for their claim on Tripoli and Cyrenaica. Having been double encouraged, they began their invasion in 1911. This led to war between Italy and Turkey and touched off the Balkan wars of1912-13, which in turn merged with World War 1 (Ali, 2001).

The Muslims expressed their resentment through the press and warned the British government of the grave consequences of helping the Balkan states. In November 1912, when the Prince of Wales visited India at that time the Muslims as a protest against the British policy towards the Turks, boycotted the functions held to welcome him. Nothing less than forty thousand Muslims were sent to jail, several lawyers boycotted the law courts, hundreds of students gave up their studies, hundreds resigned from the government services and over a thousand people were killed in Malabar (Ahmad, 2005).

On 4 August 1914, the World War 1 was broke out. At that time the Muslims leaders were once again met at Delhi (India) and decided to send a telegram for Sultan of Turkey not to join the war.

However, on 4 November 1914, Turkey joined Germany in the war against the Allies. Henc