Bacha Khan
Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India
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Updated 2026-05-29
Organized one of India's first mass nonviolent resistance movements in the 1930s frontier regions, then pivoted to Pakistani politics post-partition. Bacha Khan's Khudai Khidmatgar mobilized thousands against British rule without the Gandhi spotlight.
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 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.
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