SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Bacha Khan

1890 - 1988

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Abdul Ghaffār Khān (Pashto: عبدالغفار خان; 6 February 1890 – 20 January 1988), also known as Bacha Khan (Pashto: باچا خان) or Badshah Khan (بادشاه خان, 'King of Chiefs'), was an Indian independence activist from the North-West Frontier Province, 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'). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bacha Khan has received more than 522,724 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Bacha Khan is the 194th most popular social activist (up from 198th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 27th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Pakistani Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Bacha Khan ranks 194 out of 840. Before him are Kang Pan-sok, Manuela Sáenz, Kartini, Chen Sheng, Subcomandante Marcos, and Bernard II, Duke of Saxony. After him are Lepa Radić, Carl Oberg, Moses Montefiore, Campaspe, Max Mosley, and Jacques Vergès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Bacha Khan ranks 66. Before him are Milunka Savić, Erich Kleiber, Walter Krüger, Alfredo Ottaviani, Béla Miklós, and Max Immelmann. After him are Géza Lakatos, Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern, Grigory Kulik, Norman Bethune, Zeki Velidi Togan, and Edwin Howard Armstrong. Among people deceased in 1988, Bacha Khan ranks 51. Before him are Paul Grice, Luis Walter Alvarez, Yevgeny Mravinsky, Renato Salvatori, Karl August Wittfogel, and René Char. After him are Isamu Noguchi, Antonín Puč, Dino Grandi, Heo Jeong, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, and Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Bacha Khan ranks 26 out of 217. Before him are Imran Khan (1952), Dev Anand (1923), Guru Ram Das (1534), Manmohan Singh (1932), Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), and Kabir Bedi (1946). After him are Arif Alvi (1949), Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309), Khushal Khattak (1613), Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1178), Pran (1920), and Naropa (1016).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Pakistan

Among social activists born in Pakistan, Bacha Khan ranks 3. Before him are Bhagat Singh (1907), and Guru Ram Das (1534). After him are Malala Yousafzai (1997), Asma Jahangir (1952), Iqbal Masih (1983), Mukhtar Mai (1972), and Jalila Haider (1988).

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