Maulana Hasrat Mohani was an Indian activist in the Indian Independence Movement and a noted poet of the Urdu language. His real name was Syed Fazl-ul-Hasan. Hasrat was his pen name which he used in the Urdu poetry and the word Mohani refers to the native place of Mohan where he was born. 'Inqilab Zindabad' was coined by the Maulana Hasarat Mohani in 1921.