How large was the Khaksar Tehriks total membership?
The Tehrik had millions of followers, sympathizers, and supporters. It had thousands of offices all across India, as well as a number of foreign offices in places such as Burma, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Bahrain, and South Africa (see the legislative Assembly Debates, September 23, 1942). The Eastern Times, Lahore wrote on November 01, 1942, He [Mashriqi] asserted that 40 lakh [four million] persons had joined his movement and they carried the red badge on their shoulders. Syed Shabbir Hussain (a veteran journalist who spent over 40 years in the profession) also commented on the size of the Khaksar Movement in his book entitled Kashmir aur Allama Mashriqi. According to Hussain, In the span of 17 years, four million people showed their inclination towards this movement.
