Maulana Shaukat Ali was an Indian Muslim nationalist and leader
of the Khilafat movement. He was the brother of Maulana Mohammad
Ali. Shaukat Ali was born in 1873 in Rampur state in what is
today Uttar Pradesh. He was educated at the Aligarh Muslim
University. He was extremely fond of playing cricket, captaining
the university team. Ali served in the civil service of United
Provinces of Oudh and Agra from 1896 to 1913. Shaukat Ali helped
his brother Mohammed Ali publish the Urdu weekly Hamdard and the
English weekly Comrade. In 1919, while jailed for publishing
what the British charged as seditious materials and organizing
protests, he was elected as the first president of the Khilafat
conference.He was re-arrested and imprisoned from 1921 to 1923
for his support to Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National
Congress during the Non-Cooperation Movement (1919-1922). His
fans accorded him and his brother the title of Maulana. Along
with his brother, Shaukat Ali grew disilliusioned with the
Congress and Gandhi's lea