Nishatunnisa Mohani

نشاة النساء موهاني

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Indian journalist and independence activist (1884–1937), wife of Hasrat Mohani. Educated at home, she was proficient in Urdu, Arabic, Persian and English, worked in the non-cooperation and Khilafat movements, opened the first khadi shop, the Aligarh Khilafat Store, whose income supported Gandhi's Young India, kept her husband's newspaper Urdu-e-Mualla publishing, and criticised Gandhi for not backing her husband's complete-independence resolution.

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activist · writer
Region
South Asia
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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: A. K. Fazlul Huq · Abbas Hilmi II · Abd al-Qadir al-Maghribi · Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar · Abd el-Krim

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    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Early life

    She was born in Lucknow; the article's infobox and lead give 1884 1, its biographical section gives 1885, and Wikidata gives 1884 at year precision 2. She was educated at home, following the tradition of the era, and was proficient in Urdu, Arabic, Persian and English 1.

    Work in the movements

    She worked extensively in the non-cooperation and Khilafat movements 1. She started the first khadi clothes shop, the Aligarh Khilafat Store, and with its income supported Gandhi's magazine Young India 1. She persevered in the publication of her husband's newspaper Urdu-e-Mualla in the face of British legal actions against it 1.

    She condemned Gandhi for not standing up for the resolution for complete independence that her husband Hasrat Mohani had proposed 1. Later she left the Indian National Congress and continued fighting for the interests of farmers and labourers 1.

    Personal life and death

    She was married to Hasrat Mohani, the independence campaigner who coined the phrase "Inquilab Zindabad" 1. She died on 18 April 1937 1.

    Faith, as the sources attest it

    The English article — the only Wikipedia edition for her in any language — makes no statement of her religion at all: her Khilafat work is recounted as movement activity, and Wikidata records no religion value for her 12. Neither her marriage nor her causes attest an affiliation, and none is inferred from her name; the museum's data record leaves her faith unknown and states the evidence, or its absence, exactly.

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    • Revisions of this article must be dated, and must name the source that changed each fact.

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    Hasrat Mohani

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    Hasrat Mohani

    Sources

    1. Nishatunnisa Mohani — English Wikipedia
    2. Nishatunnisa Mohani — Wikidata Q124796496
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    Hasrat Mohani

    Urdu poet and Indian independence activist (1875–1951), born Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan, with the pen name Hasrat. He was the first to demand complete independence for India, at the Ahmedabad Congress of 1921, coined the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad', presided over the Muslim League in 1919, helped found the Communist Party of India, and after Partition remained in India as a member of its Constituent Assembly.