Khan abdul ghaffar khan

January is an important month for Indians. Apart from the English new year, 26 January marks the day when the Constitution was adopted, and 30 January marks the death anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, who was shot dead by Nathuram Godse , a Hindutva fanatic. Very few remember that 20 January marks the death anniversary of another Gandhian giant whose politics rose above communalism and was singularly focussed against British imperialism’s purloining of India. He was Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a.k.a. Bacha Khan and the Frontier Gandhi. He was named Badshah Khan at twenty-six by the members of his tribe when his father died. Khan was born on 6 February 1890, two and a half months after Jawaharlal Nehru, in the village of Utmanzai, what is now a small town near Peshawar in today’s Pakistan, then British India. His father was Behram Khan, the leader of the Muhammadzai tribe who owned prosperous agricultural lands and took pride in speaking the purest accent of Pashto, allowing the tribe to remember traditions bequeathed upon them by their rich history. Badshah Khan, too represented the best among the Pathans. As a young boy, he left his high school final exams, aspiring to join ‘The Guides’, a corps composed of Sikhs and Pathans. He expected this would allow him to become an officer in the British Indian army. But when he witnessed British racism against a fellow Pathan in the corps, he resigned from the Guides, refusing commission much to his father’s displeasure. His father did n...

These facts about Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan or The Frontier Gandhi Facts and Information 1. Abdul Ghaffar Khan belonged to the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan (formerly the North-West Frontier Province, British India). He was from the Muhammadzai tribe. 2. Ghaffar Khan was recruited into the British Indian Army. But, he decided not to join the armed forces. And he plunged himself into the social life and the freedom movement of India. 3. Al Hilal, The Urdu newspaper of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, helped Bacha Khan a lot for his study purposes. In fact, according to him, Al Hilal taught him the reality of 4. In his autobiography, My Life and Struggle (Page no 143), Frontier Gandhi said, As far as I can remember, and based on my personal experience, I find that the Hindu employees of the government have always treated me much better than my fellow Muslims. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan with children, and his Khudai Khidmatgar volunteers aka The Red Shirt Volunteers. 5. The elder brother of the Frontier Gandhi, Abdul Jabbar Khan aka Dr Khan Sahib, was twice Chief Minister of the NWFP in 1937 and 1946 (Congress-Khudai Khidmatgar government). And after the 6. Because of his love and dedication towards the betterment of the Pashtuns. Abdul Ghaffar Khan was conferred with the title of Fakhr-e-Afghan. 7. In 1928, Ghaffar Khan started publishing the monthly Pukhtun magazine from Uthmanzai Bazaar. And it was the first periodical in the Pukhto (Pashto) language published in the land of...

Unknown Photographer: Gandhi And Abdul Ghaffar Khan During Prayer / Abdul Ghaffar Khan, My Life and Struggle. Trans. Imtiaz Ahmad Sahibzada (Roli Books: Greater Noida, India: 2021); 556 + xix pgs. Most people in the United States have heard of Khudai Khidmatgar (“the servants of God”). They were mostly Abdul Ghaffar Khan was himself a Muslim, and even before he formed the Khudai Khidmatgar, he found himself seeking to reform society. In doing so, he found himself criticized and attacked by many of his fellow Muslims. He was extremely interested in the use of education for such reform, starting schools which could and would teach the youth that they did not have to follow outdated traditions which hindered the advancement of society, those which denigrated their human dignity and even hindered what he believed was the central messages of Islam. While he held strongly to his faith, he did not believe Muhammad taught exclusivism, suggesting that only Islam was correct; instead, he believed that the Quran indicated that God had established a variety of religious faiths in the world, and each of them should be respected. He believed Thus, Abdul Ghaffar Khand found himself facing two fronts of resistance to his work, one being from the British, and the other being many of his fellow Muslims. It was in part because the Badshah Khan’s life story is interesting and sad. It is the story of a noble, indeed, one can say saintly man, whose life was one of constant service to God by his...

Fast Facts Also Known As: Bacha Khan, Badshah Khan, Frontier Gandhi Born: 6 February 1890 Place of Birth: Utmanzai, Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Parents: Bahram Khan (father) Siblings: Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (elder brother) Spouse: Meharqanda Khan, Nambata Khan Children: Abdul Ali Khan, Abdul Ghani Khan, Abdul Wali Khan, Sardaro Khan, Mehar Taj Khan, Abdul Ali Khan Education: Edward’s Mission School, Aligarh Muslim University Political Association: Indian National Congress, Pakistan Azad Party, Awami National Party Awards: Prisoner of Conscience (1962), Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (1967), Bharat Ratna (1987) Death: 20 January 1988 Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a Pashtun freedom activist who fought against the British occupation of India. Popularly known as ‘Bacha Khan’, he was also a political leader of importance and a spiritual leader known for his philosophy of non-violence and pacifism. A devout Muslim, he was a very close friend and ally of Mahatma Gandhi, which also earned him the sobriquet of ‘Frontier Gandhi’. In 1929, ‘Bacha Khan’ initiated the ‘Khudāyī Khidmatgār’, (Servants of God) movement. Extremely opposed to the partition of India, he moved to Pakistan after its creation, however, he spent much of his time in jail or in exile till his death in 1988. Image Credit : https://gandhifoundation.org/2009/01/28/book-review/ Early Life Abdul Ghaffar Khan was born on 6 February 1890, in Utmanzai situated in the Khyber ...

On the 30th death anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan today, it is apt to remember him as the man who challenged the subcontinent’s pet stereotypes. He was a Pakhtun or Pathan from the North West Frontier Province, now called Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where people are said to still subscribe to the code of revenge. Yet Frontier Gandhi, as Ghaffar Khan was popularly known, led a non-violent movement against the British in the province, his followers refusing to retaliate even as they were mowed down. Ghaffar Khan embraced the Gandhian philosophy of non-violence because it resonated with Islam, thereby negating the idea that the religion of Muslims was inherently violent. He opposed the brand of homogenising political Islam, represented by Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Muslim League in much the same way as Hindutva represents political Hinduism today. That is why he stood with the Congress in its battle against the Muslim League and communalism. He believed the Congress had agreed to the partition of the country to gain power and, as a consequence, thrown the Pakhtuns “to the wolves”. Yet, the sense of betrayal did not prevent his followers from saving Hindus and Sikhs in the North West from Muslim assailants during the Partition riots. Indeed, Ghaffar Khan is a reminder of how far the subcontinent has veered away from what it wanted to be. Critics have doubted his commitment to non-violence. This is largely because, as Rajmohan Gandhi points out in Ghaffar Khan: Nonviolent Badshah of ...

Khan was from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, earlier known as the Northwest Frontier Province, and was a Pakhtun or Pathan. A devoted Muslim, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, led a nonviolent movement throughout the county against the British and was an advocate for Hindu-Muslim reconciliation in the Indian subcontinent. He was a political and spiritual leader was recognised for his peaceful opposition with an oath towards non-violence, on the path of the Muslim Prophet, Muhammad. The becoming of the “Frontier Gandhi” Khan’s close friend Amir Chand Bombwal gave him the nickname “Sarhadi Gandhi” as the former held views as that of Mahatma Gandhi. In 1910, at the age of 20, Khan opened a school in his hometown Utmanzai which provided education to women and children, rebelling against the British Raj. After witnessing the downtrodden condition of the society, especially his community, Khan developed the Afghan Reform Society in 1921, followed by a youth movement called the Pashtun Assembly, for the social upliftment of the community. He also founded the ‘Pashtun’ a monthly political journal to ensure that people were well-read and informed. In 1929, in a revolt against the British, Khan formed the Khudai Khidmatgar, a nonviolent anti-colonial resistance movement that demanded a democratic, secular and united nation. As the popularity and favoritism towards the Khudai Khidmatgars increased among Indians, the colonizers launched a series of crackdowns against Khan and his followers. The Khudai Khi...

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