Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (6 February 1890 – 20 January 1988) , nicknamed Bacha Khan (Pashto: , lit. "king of chiefs") or Pacha Khan , was a Pashtun independence activist against the rule of the British Raj. He was a political and spiritual leader known for his nonviolent opposition, and a lifelong pacifist and devout Muslim. A close friend of Mohandas Gandhi, Bacha Khan was nicknamed the "Frontier Gandhi" in British India. Bacha Khan founded the Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of God") movement in 1929, whose success triggered a harsh crackdown by the British Empire against him and his supporters, and they suffered some of the most severe repression of the Indian independence movement.