Gandhism
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Gandhism, also referred to as Gandhianism, is a body of ideas that describes the inspiration, vision, and the life work of Mohandas K. Gandhi. It is particularly associated with his contributions to t
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (left) of the Khudai Khidmatgars and Mohandas 'Mahatma' Gandhi (right) of the Indian National Congress
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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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
Gandhism
…the Japanese militarists, Gandhi took on an offensive in civil resistance, called the Quit India Movement. There have been Muslim Gandhians, such as Abdul Ghaffar Khan, known as the "Frontier Gandhi"; under the influence of Gandhi, he organised the Pathans of the Northwest Frontier as early as 1919 to support the…
Khan, c. 1960s
Khan at a pro-independence rally in Peshawar with Mahatma Gandhi in 1938
Khan leading a march from Peshawar, India to Kabul, Afghanistan during the Khilafat Movement, which sought to restore the Islamic Caliph of the Ottoman Empire after its defeat in World War I (c. 1920)
Followers of Khan's Khudai Khitmatgar movement (c. 1947)