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Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang
(26 September 1876 ? 16 October 1952) was a distinguished
lawyer
,
poet
and
Pakistan Movement
leader. He was the Deputy Leader of the
All-India Muslim League
from 1938 to 1942, and was appointed to the
Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
in April, 1950.
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Friendship with Allama Iqbal
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He was close friends with
Allama Muhammad Iqbal
, a college hostel-mate and a fellow poet.
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Nairang had sketched Allama Iqbal's personality as a college student and had described the exact location of his college hostel room in an article that he wrote at that time. Allama Iqbal had resided in that hostel room between 1895 and 1900.
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In 2016, the evidence mentioned about Iqbal's hostel room in Nairang's article helped the
Government College
's staff in tracing the exact location of his room.
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Early life and career
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Ghulam Bhik Nairang was born in Daurana, near
Ambala
in
British India
in 1876. He received his BA degree from Government College,
Lahore
. He also joined the editorial staff of a magazine,
Makhzan
. Nairang was politically active and became an important leader of Muslim India. He was a member of the
Central Legislative Assembly
from 1936 to 1942.
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Nairang also was actively involved in the
Khilafat Movement
, played a protective and key role in resisting the anti-Muslim
Shuddhi movement
by some Hindu leaders in British Punjab where they were trying to reconvert Muslims back to
Hinduism
.
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After migrating to Pakistan, he also was a member of the first
Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
.
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Books
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- Kalaam-e-Nairang
- Nairang's compilation of poetry was published in 1982 from
Karachi
,
Pakistan
(first edition in 1907, second edition in 1917, third edition with detailed introduction by
Moinuddin Aqeel
in 1982)
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References
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