ABSTRACT
T H E National Movement in India, during the last twenty years, has thrown up many striking personalities and met with many extraordinary adventures, but no event has been more unexpected than the awakening of the North-West Frontier province under the leadership of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Suddenly to find a Pathan leader, a king among men by stature and dignity of bearing, practising Ahimsa, or Non-Violence, enjoining it upon his followers, and implicitly taking instructions from Mahatma Gandhi, reads almost like a legend or a romance; but in reality it is a solid fact in modern Indian history, of which future historians will have to take full account. As to the powerful character of the movement there can be hardly a question. How far it has kept non-violent has been much debated. Of one thing I can speak with certainty at first hand, namely, about the character of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan himself.
