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Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India
Key facts
- Born
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan , ( 1890-02-06 ) 6 February 1890, Utmanzai , Punjab Province , British India , (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan)
- Died
- 20 January 1988 (1988-01-20) (aged 97), Peshawar , North-West Frontier Province , Pakistan
- Resting place
- Jalalabad , Afghanistan
- Education
- Aligarh Muslim University
- Title
- Bacha Khan
- Political party
- Indian National Congress (1920–1947) Independent (1947–1949) Azad Pakistan Party (1949–1957) National Awami Party (1957–1967) National Awami Party (Wali) (1967–1986) Awami National Party (1986–1988)
- Movement
- Khudai Khidmatgar , Indian independence movement
- Spouses
- Meharqanda Kinankhel ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1912 – 1918 ) Nambata Kinankhel ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1920 – 1926 )
- Children
- 5, including Abdul Ghani Khan , Abdul Wali Khan , Abdul Ali Khan
- Parent
- Abdul Bahram Khan (father)
- Relatives
- Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (brother)
- Awards
- Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience (1962) Jawaharlal Nehru Award (1967) Bharat Ratna (1987)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Pakistan
- Place of death
- Peshawar
- Sibling
- Khan Sahib
- Occupation
- freedom fighter
- Educated at
- Aligarh Muslim University
- Languages spoken
- Pashto
- Native language
- Pashto
- Religion
- Islam
- Movement
- Khudai Khidmatgar
- Image
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan.jpg
- Significant event
- prisoner of conscience
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- Abdul Ghaffar Khan
- date of death
- 1988-01-20
- date of birth
- 1890-02-06
- place of burial
- Jalalabad
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Encyclopedic overview
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (6 February 1890 – 20 January 1988), also known as Bacha Khan and Badshah Khan, was an Indian independence activist from the North-West Frontier Province, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British rule in colonial India. After the partition occurred, he became a Pakistani politician and led the Azad Party.
He was a political and spiritual leader known for his nonviolent opposition and lifelong pacifism; he was a devout Muslim and an advocate for Hindu–Muslim unity in the subcontinent. Because of his similar ideology and close friendship with Mahatma Gandhi, Khan was nicknamed "the Frontier Gandhi" (सरहदी गांधी, Sarhadi Gandhi). In 1929, Khan founded the Khudai Khidmatgar, an anti-colonial nonviolent resistance movement. The Khudai Khidmatgar's success and popularity eventually prompted the colonial government to launch numerous crackdowns against Khan and his supporters; the Khudai Khidmatgar experienced some of the most severe repression of the entire Indian independence movement.
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