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Download Solution PDFWho among the following was popularly known as ‘Frontier Gandhi’?
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
Key Points
- Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988), the foremost 20th-century leader of the Pashtunswas a follower of Mahatma Gandhi and was called the “Frontier Gandhi”.
- Ghaffar Khan met Gandhi and entered politics in 1919 during the agitation over the Rowlatt Acts, which allowed the restriction of political dissidents without trial.
- Ghaffar Khan founded the Red Shirt movement (Khudai Khitmatgar) among the Pashtuns.
- In 1987 he was awarded the Bharat Ratna Prize, the highest Indian honour that can be given to civilians. He was the first non-Indian to receive this honour.
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