MY LIFE AND STRUGGLE

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN

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?Bacha Khan?s message of the power of peaceful protest for liberty, equality and justice changed our culture and customs forever and inspires me every day in my activism for girls? education and women?s empowerment.?

Malala Yousafzai, Youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate

?As a student activist, what struck me the most about working with Bacha Khan was the strength of his compassion and his disarming humility. He would insist on walking long distances even in old age to reach the marginalised to help them or to at least express solidarity with them. The publication of English translation of his Pakhto autobiography is coming out at a time when younger generations are rediscovering Bacha Khan?s life and struggle.?

Afrasiab Khattak, Former Provincial President of Awami National Party, former senator, writer and analyst of regional affairs

?This compelling story is more relevant now than ever. Bacha Khan?s tireless struggle against oppression and division was non-violent and uncompromising, principled and creative. Readers will be enthralled and inspired.?

Mukulika Banerjee, Author of The Pathan Unarmed, 2001

?The life story of a man of peace and non-violence, born amidst mayhem and conflict across the Sub-continent, still carries a powerful message in the turbulent times we live in. The autobiography of Bacha Khan in English, for the first time in a lucid translation from the original Pakhto by Imtiaz Ahmad Sahizada, is a landmark publication. The history of modern South Asia has been incomplete without a better understanding of how and why the fierce Pashtun tribes embraced the Gandhian ideology of non-violent defiance. My Life and Struggle introduces a new and younger generation to the tribulations of the Pashtuns.?

Ahmed Rashid, Author of Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 2012

Ali Raza is Associate Professor of History at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
ISBN: 9789697834266
Publisher: FOLIO BOOKS
Subtitle: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ABDUL GHAFFAR KHAN
Author: BACHA KHAN

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2022

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Abdul Ghaffar Khan (6 February, 1890 ? 20 January, 1988), also known as Bacha Khan, was an anti-colonial freedom fighter: the founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against the British occupation of India. A Muslim and a pacifist, Bacha Khan inspired millions to undertake a non-violent resistance struggle against the British colonisers in much of the northern part of India. His unwavering interest in anti-colonial education and his continued struggle for an egalitarian Sub-continent made his life a consistent recipient of colonial repression. So much so that the Khudai Khidmatgar movement is deemed as a struggle that?s faced the most heinous of colonial brutalities in India.

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