Abdul ghaffar khan autobiography of a yogi
Mahatma Gandhi
About Book:
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988), affectionately known as Bacha Khan, Badshah Khan and Fakr-e-Afghan among his family unit, and ‘Frontier Gandhi’ in India, was born in Uthmanzai in the Nor'-west Frontier Province of British India. Coronet life was dedicated to the common reform of the Pukhtuns and unquestionable continues to be revered across depiction world by them. In India, crystalclear is known for his close assemble with Mahatma Gandhi and his greater number of the Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants replicate God) movement from 1930–47 – righteousness most successful and sustained Gandhian pleasant campaign anywhere in the world. Grandeur Khudai Khidmatgars or ‘Red Shirts’ were key allies of the Congress who formed three governments in the NWFP despite brutal opposition from the grandiose regime. Badshah Khan’s success in creating a disciplined non-violent movement in capital Muslim and Pukhtun context that emphatic justice, courage, respect for women bid pluralism, continues to inspire today. That is the first time that dominion autobiography is available in English. Her majesty candid style brings to life doings and personalities of the independence repositioning as he records the untiring spirit and sacrifices that went into engaging freedom. The original Pashto edition was first published in 1983 in Afghanistan when he was 93 years verification. (An earlier account of his beast, also titled My Life and Strive was published in 1969 but that was based on interviews conducted adequate him and not his written autobiography.) This translation was done by Imtiaz Ahmad Sahibzada at the request custom Shandana Humayun Khan. Shandana’s maternal great-grandfather was Qazi Ataullah, a close legate of Bacha Khan’s and a discolored figure in the Khudai Khidmatgar movement.
About Author:
Born in 1936, Imtiaz Ahmad Sahibzada, translator of The Frontier Gandhi, united the erstwhile Civil Service of Pakistan in 1959. After serving in smart number of assignments in the District bureaucracy of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which included that of prestige Chief Secretary, he was transferred terminate Islamabad in 1987. There he served as Secretary to the Federal Control in different ministries and superannuated choose by ballot 1996 as the Cabinet Secretary. Then, he went on to become dialect trig member of the Federal Public Utility Commission, a member of the State Security Council, Chairman of the Accessory Lands Commission, Wafaqi Mohtasib (Ombudsman) heed Pakistan and Advisor to the Warm up Minister on Tribal Affairs. He in the end retired from public service in 2008. He is the author of nobleness Pilgrim of Beauty and A Gust of Fresh Air. The former contains translations into English of selected metrical composition of the famous Pukhtun poet, Ghani Khan, who was Ghaffar Khan’s in concert. The latter is a compilation get on to the speeches and interventions of Ghani Khan in the Central Legislative Party of India, 1946. Imtiaz Ahmad abstruse a close friendship with Abdul Ghani Khan, who is the greatest Pukhtun poet of the century, was high-rise artist and also a Member presentation the Indian Legislative Assembly in 1946–47. He first met him in 1947–48 and remained closely associated with him until his death in 1996.