Question

Who was called the Frontier Gandhi?

Answer 1

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was referred to as frontier Gandhi. He was also known as Bacha Khan. He was a Pashtun independence activist who campaigned to eliminate and end the rule of the British Raj in India.

About Abdul Ghafar Khan

• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan took birth on 6 February 1890
• He belonged to a Pashtun family from a place called Utmanzai in the Peshawar Valley of British India
• In the year 1910, that is when he was 20 years old he opened a mosque school in his hometown
• Later after five years of opening the school, the Britishers shut the school thinking that ant British activities were going on in that school
• Khan had a strong opposition to the partition of India
• He was the founder of the Khadi Khidmatgar (“Servants of God”) movement in 1929
• The movement lead to great success and this earned his team and supporters a harsh crackdown from the British Raj, and suffering some of the worst repression of the Indian Independence Struggle

Why was Abdul Ghaffar Khan called Frontier Gandhi?

Abdul Ghaffar Khan called Frontier Gandhi due to the following reasons

• Due to his adherence to pacifism and close association with Mahatma Gandhi, he earned the nickname “Frontier Gandhi”
• Bacha Khan was a member of NWFP (North Western Frontier Province) and people saw him exactly as a mirror image of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
• Bacha Khan and his followers always felt a sense of betrayal by both the countries Pakistan and India
• Bacha Khan’s last and final words to Gandhi and his erstwhile allies in the Congress party were: “You have thrown us to the wolves”
• He was more or less like a left hand of Gandhi