Forgotten hero...Badshah Khan

[Nair saab]

Does any one remember this great man India has ever seen...

The real badshah khan...

 

[FullMetalJacket]

Nope, but perhaps you can shed some light on this person.

 

[Nair saab]

Nope, but perhaps you can shed some light on this person.

i am

 

[Nair saab]

Badshah Khan (1890-20 Jan, 1988), as Abdul Gaffar Khan was well known, was the founder of a party called Khudai Khidmatgar in 1929 – a great flower of Mahatma Gandhi. Badshah Khan was the President of All India Congress committee in 1934.

For all his austerity and simplicity, Gaffar Khan embraced the modern world and acknowledged the progress that Europe and America had made in some crucial areas. He enlisted unarmed recruits from the countryside and hoped to supersede the culture of the gun. His practice of Islam and non-violence were shaped by two longings – to rid the Pakhtoons of revenge and save them from destruction that violence would invite from the British who were the colonial power.

Badshah Khan was the ‘Peacemaker from the Pashtun Past’ who sought to replace revenge with justice and reconciliation. His daily life demonstrated his belief in the unity of humanity. He was also a rock. He was the recipient of ‘Nehru World Peace’ award and Bharat Ratna (1987), India’s highest civilian award.

Badshah Khan was buried in the garden of his Jalalabad home in the heart of the Pakhtoon, according to his wishes. Though the Afghan struggle was not yet over, the Kabul government and the mujahideen both announced a ceasefire for the event and his last rites were attended by Pakistan’s ruler Zial-ul-Haq and India’s prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi – a sea of humanity greeting the dead had few parallels in history.

The naturalness of Badshah Khan’s belief is Islam, his directness, his rejection of violence and revenge, and his readiness to co-operate with non-Muslims add up to a valuable legacy for our times – a task of overcoming divides between Islam and the West and Afghanistan and the rest of the world. His bridge-building life is a refutation of the clash of civilization theory.

 

[Icarus]

I'm waiting for my Pukhtun brethren to comment on this topic first..............

 

[Veeru]

Respected Badshah Khan was a true Indian and was against the pakistan because he was of opinion that only few elites and that too punjabi/sindhi will benefit from it. Even after creation of pakistan he remain pro India.

 

[JayAtl]

Respected Badshah Khan was a true Indian and was against the pakistan because he was of opinion that only few elites and that too punjabi/sindhi will benefit from it. Even after creation of pakistan he remain pro India.

actually if you read his bio or the synopsis of his bio that was posted above- it probably shows he was not against anything or any nation...

 

[Icarus]

Respected Badshah Khan was a true Indian and was against the pakistan because he was of opinion that only few elites and that too punjabi/sindhi will benefit from it. Even after creation of pakistan he remain pro India.

You are wrong there, my dear friend, after the creation of Pakistan he supported the idea of Pukhtoonistan and backed Afghanistan's claim to KP(formerly NWFP). He had given up his "Indian Mission".

 

[justanobserver]

Respected Badshah Khan was a true Indian

He was against the creation of Pakistan, but wasn't an Indian nationalist, rather he was a Pashtun nationalist. What he wanted was a unified Afghanistan (Khyber Paktunwa to be a part of Afghanistan)

@Nair saab you forgot to meintion that his other name was Frontier Gandhi

 

[Veeru]

You are wrong there, my dear friend, after the creation of Pakistan he supported the idea of Pukhtoonistan and backed Afghanistan's claim to KP(formerly NWFP). He had given up his "Indian Mission".

You didn't get me. I mean he was a friend of India not a India hater.

He was against the creation of Pakistan, but wasn't an Indian nationalist, rather he was a Pashtun nationalist. What he wanted was a unified Afghanistan (Khyber Paktunwa to be a part of Afghanistan)

@Nair saab you forgot to meintion that his other name was Frontier Gandhi

I know it.

I don't care about nationality till they don't harm us and I will appreciate people of any nationality if they are friend of India.

They have right to follow their path but if they have good feeling towered us we will reciprocate with the same.

 

[Nair saab]

badshah khan also knowm as Fakhr-e-Afghan & Sarhaddi Gandhi was also the founder of Khudai Khidmatgar movement ....he is also honored with bharat ratana a great paston nationalist...his famus quote was "O Pathans! Your house has fallen into ruin. Arise and rebuild it, and remember to what race you belong"
when congress party accepted the partition he told congress that "you have thrown us to the wolfs..as a muslim he worked for the rights of muslim women & their education...
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia