Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan


  • He was a Pashtun leader and ardent follower of Mahatma Gandhi and was known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule.
  • He was known as Badshah Khan and “Sarhadi Gandhi” (Frontier Gandhi).
  • He had started the first Pushto political monthly Pukhtoon.
  • He also Participated in opposing the Rowlatt Act.
  • He also played an active part in the Khilafat movement, and as a result, he was arrested in 1921 under the Frontier Crimes Regulations for spreading nationalistic ideas among the Pathans. He was kept in solitary confinement, with his hands and feet tied. After his release in 1924 he came to be known as Fakhr-e-Afghan.
  • He was offered the presidency of the Indian National Congress in 1931 which he refused saying that “I am a simple soldier and Khudai Khidmatgar, and I only want to serve.”
  • He remained a member of the Congress Working Committee for many years, resigning only in 1939 because of his differences with the Party’s War Policy. He rejoined the Congress Party when the War Policy was revised.
  • He strongly opposed the All-India Muslim League’s demand for the partition of India. When the Indian National Congress declared its acceptance of the partition plan without consulting the Khudai Khidmatgar leaders, he felt very sad and told the Congress “you have thrown us to the wolves. He was against the partition of India and he was many times targeted for being Anti-Muslim.
  • Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan formed a clan of non-violent revolutionaries, the Khudai Khidmatgars (known as Red Shirts), who played an active role in the Civil Disobedience Movement. Initially, his Khudaikhidmatgar movement was a social reform organization focusing on education and elimination of bloodfeuds from Afghan society but turned more political later.













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