Syed Fazl ul Hasan Maulana Hasrat Mohani as a Jouranlist
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Hasrat Mohani, Urdu-I-Mu`Alla, Takira Shoara, Mustaqil, Literary Service, Political Service, Muslims Rights, Muslim League, Congress Introduction After the failure of War of Independence of 1857, the British targeted not only the Muslims but the Muslim press as well. The Muslim Press was targeted due to the aggressive policy of the Muslims’ journalists towards the British. As a result, the Muslim press was almost completely dissolved in 1858. According to J. Natarajan, there were only 12 newspaper in 1858 in which only one newspaper was owned by Muslims (Natarajan, 1955, 54). The MuslimAbstract
Maulana Hasrat Mohani had multi-facet personality. He had been as a poet, freedom fighter, politician, educationalist and a journalist. As a journalist he launched Urdu-i-Mu`alla which was a mouthpiece of his literary and political services. Literary, it incorporated the poetry of the popular poets including Ghalib and himself. Politically, it advocated the idea of ‘complete independence’ in India. The present paper highlights the services of Hasrat Mohani in terms of poetry, as a freedom fighter, political and journalistic services of Hasrat Mohani vis-a-vis his periodicals including Urdu-i-Mu`alla, Takira Shoara and Mustaqil.
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