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25/04/2014 GMT

The Frontier Gandhi

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A British officer's description of the Qissa Khwani Bazaar massacre

In 1930 the arrest of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan ended with the deaths of hundreds of people after British soldiers opened fire in Peshawar.

In 1930 protestors gathered in Qissa Khwani Bazaar to object to the the arrest of independence activist Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - also known as The Frontier Gandhi. The gathering in Peshawar was a non-violent one, but British soldiers opened fire and hundreds of people were killed. 

We dip into the archives for a recording of a British colonial officer, Olaf Caroe, who gave his account of this violent episode in the story of Indian independence to the BBC in the 1970s.

Picture: Mahatma Gandhi with Pashtun leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 1938 in Peshawar, during a political meeting. Courtesy of OFF/AFP/Getty Images

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