The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition and Memory in the Khudai Khidmatgar Movement

by Mukulika Banerjee

Book Overview

The Pukhtun (Pathan) of the North West Frontier are regarded as a warrior people. Yet in the inter-war years there arose a Muslim movement, the Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God), which adopted military forms of organizations and dress, but which also drew its inspiration from Gandhian principles of non-violent action and was dedicated to an Indian nationalism rather than communal separatism. Virtually erased from the national historiography of post-partition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852552734
• ISBN13: 9780852552735
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"