Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr

Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr
Born	15 April 1895
Died	16 Nov 1971 Lahore, Pakistan
Occupation	Journalist, Political activist
Nationality	Pakistani

Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr (13 April 1893 – 16 November 1971) مولانا غلام رسول مہر or (Ghulam Rasul Mehr) born in Phoolpur, a village in the district of Jalandhar, India is a well known Muslim Scholar from the Indian subcontinent. He was a Muhammad Iqbal and Mirza Ghalib Scholar as well as a Political Activist. He wrote his autobiography named Mehr Beeti, recalling his early years in Phoolpur, Maulana says, "I feel we were living in paradise. Suddenly uprooted from there, we had the feeling of wandering into a desert." Mehr Beeti provides graphic descriptions of Phoolpur’s culture and that of adjoining villages.

He got his basic primary education from a primary school of Khambra. Then he was educated at Mission High School in Jalandhar City. After his school years in Jalandhar, he enrolled at Islamia College (Lahore), where he developed a fondness for the city. He found Lahore to be culturally different from Delhi and Lucknow. Maulana felt that while Delhi and Lucknow reflected the Eastern culture, Lahore, on the other hand, was a happy blend of the East and the West.

At the same time, Maulana Mehr was deeply involved in the developments on the Indian political front. The Indian Muslims, apart from their participation in the Pakistan Movement, were agitated at what was happening, at that time, in the Muslim world. Young Maulana Mehr, who had just completed his education and who had a passion to serve the cause of freedom and the Muslim 'millat' (nation), began writing in the Daily Zamindar (newspaper) and eventually started working there.

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