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Badshah Khan (Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan) - The Frontier Gandhi : A 1981 documentary film by Films Division

2 April 2017

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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890 — 20 January 1988) was an Afghan Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India. A lifelong pacifist and a close friend of Mohandas Gandhi, he was also known as Fakhr-e-Afghan (The Afghan pride), Badshah Khan (also Bacha Khan, Pashto: lit‎., "King Khan") and Sarhaddi Gandhi (Urdu, Hindi lit., "Frontier Gandhi").