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Muhammad Zai Khan
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan-V P NaikKhan Abdul Ghaffar Khan addresses the audience during a public function in Bombay on January 02, 1970 while Chief Minister of Maharashtra V P Naik (right) looks...
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (left), Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi and President of India V V Giri planting sapling, commemorating birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, at Shanti Van in New Delhi on November 14, ...
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (left) is being presented with a purse of Rs one lakh by M D Chaudhari, Education Minister of Maharashtra, during a public function at Shivaji Park, Dadar in Bombay on January 12, 1...
FRONTIER GANDHI
This year marks the 75th anniversary of an unprecedented yet almost entirely unknown event in the history of nonviolent resistance. In the main square of the city of Peshawar, in modern day Pakistan, several hundred nonviolent Pashtun resisters were shot and killed by British-led troops as they peacefully protested the arrest of their leader, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, known as Badshah Khan to his followers, and later known in India as “the Frontier Gandhi.”
That they were gathered peacefully in the first place, unarmed, is astonishing in itself since these were Muslim Pashtun from the Northwest Frontier Province of India, members of one of the most violent tribal societies in the world. Khan had persuaded them to lay down their guns and knives and become members of his nonviolent army, the...
