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Hasrat Mohani

1875 - 1951

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Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan (1 January 1875 – 13 May 1951), known by his pen-name Hasrat Mohani, was an Indian independence activist and a poet in Urdu. Together with Swami Kumaranand, he is regarded as the first person to demand complete independence for India in 1921 at the Ahmedabad Session of Congress. Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi supported the complete independence motion demanded by Hasrat Mohani. He wrote the ghazal (love poem) "Chupke chupke raat din". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hasrat Mohani is the 5,264th most popular writer (down from 4,507th in 2019), the 707th most popular biography from India (down from 562nd in 2019) and the 91st most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Hasrat Mohani ranks 5,264 out of 7,302. Before him are Bruno Heller, Georgy Ivanov, Alan Bennett, Þórbergur Þórðarson, Théodore Aubanel, and Dicuil. After him are Humayun Ahmed, Édouard Pailleron, Athenaeus Mechanicus, Lise Nørgaard, August Jakobson, and Viktoriya Tokareva.

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Among people born in 1875, Hasrat Mohani ranks 166. Before him are Sigurður Eggerz, Georgios Papasideris, Konstantin Yuon, Jean-Guy Gautier, Marmaduke Pickthall, and Kazimierz Prószyński. After him are Joseph Dempsey, Béla Békessy, Charles Gondouin, Andreas Michalakopoulos, Tomás Berreta, and Františka Plamínková. Among people deceased in 1951, Hasrat Mohani ranks 154. Before him are Edith Hannam, Pierre Braine, Joaquín Chapaprieta, Polydore Veirman, Ignaty Krachkovsky, and Alfrēds Kalniņš. After him are Walter, Harold Kitson, Ivor Novello, Fanny Brice, Vsevolod Vishnevsky, and Axel Sjöblom.

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In India

Among people born in India, Hasrat Mohani ranks 707 out of 1,861. Before him are Genelia D'Souza (1987), K. Chandrashekar Rao (1954), Kedarnath Singh (1934), Hrithik Roshan (1974), Shivakumara Swami (1907), and Kangana Ranaut (1987). After him are Bhimsen Joshi (1922), Mahadev Desai (1892), Kamal Haasan (1954), Dawood Ibrahim (1955), Freida Pinto (1984), and Rahul Gandhi (1970).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Hasrat Mohani ranks 91. Before him are Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887), Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (1872), Amitav Ghosh (1956), Raghunath Murmu (1905), Yashpal (1903), and Kedarnath Singh (1934). After him are Mahadev Desai (1892), Suryakant Tripathi (1899), Jayakanthan (1934), Bano Qudsia (1928), K. Shivaram Karanth (1902), and Altaf Hussain Hali (1837).

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