Abstract
A passionate devotee of freedom and liberty, Abdul Ghani Khan, remained a victim of
colonialism and internal colonialism during his life time. Therefore, a sizable section
of his works (prose and poetry) reflects anti-colonialism, a protest or struggle against
the colonial rulers and their policies during the British Raj. His first book, The
Pathans, his essays and columns published in the Monthly Pakhtun, his speeches in
the Parliament of British colonized India and his poetry, have a clear message of
struggle against the British colonizers. As an anti-colonialist, he raised his voice and
persuaded his people to revolt against the savage policies of the British rulers and get
their rights through violence and revolution. Ghani Khan’s philosophy of resistance is
quite close to Frantz Fanon (1925-1961). His hatred against the savagery of the
colonial period reflects his sentiments about the atrocities of the British exploiters.
The focus of this research paper is to identify and highlight the anticolonial discourse
in the prose and poetry of Ghani Khan.
Gulzar Jalal Yousafzai. (2018) Anticolonial Discourse in the works of Ghani Khan, Pashto, Volume 47, Issue 1.
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