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SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Bacha Khan

1890 - 1988

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Abdul Ghaffār Khān BR (Pashto: عبدالغفار خان; 6 February 1890 – 20 January 1988), also known as Bacha Khan (باچا خان, 'King of Chiefs') or Badshah Khan (بادشاه خان) was a Pashtun independence activist, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India.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. Due to his similar ideologies and close friendship with Mahatma Gandhi, Khan was nicknamed Sarhadi Gandhi (सरहदी गांधी, 'the Frontier Gandhi'). In 1929, Khan founded the Khudai Khidmatgar, an anti-colonial nonviolent resistance movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bacha Khan has received more than 517,331 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Bacha Khan is the 198th most popular social activist (down from 192nd in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 25th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Pakistani Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Bacha Khan ranks 198 out of 538Before him are Tiradentes, Kailash Satyarthi, Subcomandante Marcos, Aliya Moldagulova, Zinaida Portnova, and Ravachol. After him are Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, Lalla Fatma N'Soumer, Stjepan Filipović, Serge Klarsfeld, Simon bar Giora, and Wat Tyler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Bacha Khan ranks 67Before him are Alfredo Ottaviani, Vannevar Bush, Milunka Savić, Géza Lakatos, Adolf Schärf, and Zeki Velidi Togan. After him are Béla Miklós, Max Immelmann, Prince Joachim of Prussia, Jacobus Oud, Walter Weiß, and Alois Eliáš. Among people deceased in 1988, Bacha Khan ranks 54Before him are Giuseppe Saragat, Willem Drees, Ana Aslan, Chico Mendes, Heo Jeong, and Trường Chinh. After him are Branko Zebec, Renato Salvatori, René Char, Antonín Puč, Giacinto Scelsi, and Vladimír Menšík.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Bacha Khan ranks 28 out of 180Before him are Raj Kapoor (1924), Ranjit Singh (1780), Imran Khan (1952), Manmohan Singh (1932), Arif Alvi (1949), and Guru Ram Das (1534). After him are Kumail Nanjiani (1978), Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), Naropa (1016), Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309), Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), and Khema (-550).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Pakistan

Among social activists born in Pakistan, Bacha Khan ranks 3Before him are Bhagat Singh (1907) and Guru Ram Das (1534). After him are Malala Yousafzai (1997), Iqbal Masih (1983), Asma Jahangir (1952), and Mukhtar Mai (1972).