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Inquilab Zindabad


Inquilab Zindabad (Hindustani: इंक़िलाब ज़िन्दाबाद(Devanagari), اِنقلاب زِنده باد(Nasta'liq), Punjabi: ਇਨਕਲਾਬ ਜ਼ਿੰਦਾਬਾਦ) is an Urdu phrase which translates to "Long live the revolution!" The poet, journalist, scholar and independence activist Maulana Hasrat Mohani (born 1875) coined this slogan in 1921 in protest against the British. He first used the phrase when Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru went to meet Mohani.

The slogan was also used by Bhagat Singh, who shouted it after bombing the Central Assembly in Delhi. It became one of the rallying cries of the Indian independence movement. Hasrat Mohani inspired the activities of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association, particularly Bhagat Singh and his comrades. In Indian political novels chronicling the independence movement, a pro-independence sentiment is often characterized by characters shouting this slogan.


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