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'''Abid Hasan Safrani''', IFS, born '''Zain-al-Abdin Hasan''', was an officer of the [[Indian National Army]] (INA) and later, after 1947, an [[India]]n [[diplomat]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/abid-hasan-safrani-hyderabad-man-who-coined-rousing-jai-hind-72023|title=Abid Hasan Safrani: The Hyderabad man who coined the rousing 'Jai Hind!'|date=2017-11-22|work=The News Minute|access-date=2018-08-19}}</ref>

Born to an anti-colonialist family in [[Hyderabad State|Hyderabad]], Abid Hasan was brought-up in India and later went to [[Germany]] to train as an engineer. While he was a student in [[Germany]] during [[World War II]] that Abid Hasan met [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] and decided to join the [[Indische Legion]]. Hasan would later serve as Bose's personal secretary and interpreter while Bose was [[Indische Legion|in Germany]]. Hasan also sailed with Bose in the German [[U-boat]] [[U-180]] in 1943 on Bose's voyage to South East Asia. Over the course of the reformation of the INA and its campaigns in the [[South-East Asian theater of World War II|south east Asian theatre]], Hasan rose to be a [[Major]] in the [[Azad Hind Fauj]]. It was also during this that he adopted "''Safrani''", after the holy Hindu colour of [[Saffron (color)|Saffron]], to his name as a mark of communal harmony.

After repatriation to India at the end of the war, Abid Hasan was released following the end of the [[INA trials]] in 1946 and joined the [[Indian National Congress]] briefly. After partition, Hasan chose to settle in Hyderabad and joined the nascent [[Indian Foreign Service]]. Over a long diplomatic career, Hasan served as the Indian [[Ambassador]] to a number of countries including [[Egypt]] and [[Denmark]] before retiring in 1969 and settling back in Hyderabad. Abid Hasan Saffrani died in 1984.

On suggestion of Abid Hasan, the INA adopted "[[Jai Hind]]" as its slogan;<ref name="Singh1986">{{cite book|author=Gurbachan Singh Mangat|title=The Tiger Strikes: An Unwritten Chapter of Netaji's Life History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NiMgAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Gagan Publishers|page=95}}</ref> The term "[[Jai Hind]]" had been coined by '''Abid Hasan''' himself.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/who-coined-jai-hind-114022400255_1.html|title=Who coined 'Jai Hind'? |newspaper=Business Standard India |date=24 February 2014 |agency=Press Trust of India }}</ref>
In the 1940s, the INA leaders decided to devise a religion-agnostic greeting for its soldiers: Thakur Yashwant Singh suggested "Hindustan ki Jai", but Hasan felt this was too long and suggested "Jai Hind" as an alternative, which was unanimously accepted.<ref name="Singh1986"/> The term emerged as a national slogan after India's independence.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sumantra Bose|title=Secular States, Religious Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vrxsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA49|year=2018|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-47203-6|pages=49–50}}</ref>

Netaji Bose's nephew Aurobindo Bose later married Safrani's niece. Her name is [[Suraiya Hasan Bose]]. She was the daughter of elder brother of Abid Hasan safrini by name{{Clarify|reason=what does this mean?|date=October 2018}} Badrul Hasan, who worked with Gandhiji. Mr Abid Hasan died on April 5, 1984.

==Scholarly activities==
Hasan was also a scholar who spent long hours with his Persian and Urdu poetry.<ref>{{cite news |last=Doctor |first=Geeta |url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/yw/2002/03/23/stories/2002032300180300.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020828212805/http://thehindu.com/thehindu/yw/2002/03/23/stories/2002032300180300.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=28 August 2002 |title=On a slow boat with Safrani |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=23 March 2002 |accessdate=2016-03-15 }}</ref> His [[Hindi]]-[[Urdu]] translation of ''[[Jana Gana Mana]]'' with the music from [[Ram Singh Thakuri]], became ''[[Subh Sukh Chain]]'', the anthem of the [[Arzi Hukumat-e-Azad Hind|Provisional Government of Free India]].<ref name="tribune2002">{{Citation | title=A tribute to the legendary composer of National Anthem | newspaper=The Tribune | date=2002-05-04 | accessdate = 2008-11-10 | url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020504/windows/main2.htm | quote=Snippet: ''... Capt Ram Singh would be remembered for his composition of Jana Gana Mana, the original script of which was a little different. It was Sukh Chain Kee Barkha Barse, Bharat Bagiya Hai Jaga. The song was based on a poem by Rabindranath Tagore and was translated into Hindi by Abid Ali. ...''}}</ref>
Abid Hasan Safrani died on 5 April 1984 in Hyderabad.

==See also==
* [[Syed Akbaruddin]]

==References==
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*{{usurped|[https://archive.today/20130125121630/http://www.hinduonnet.com/2001/10/20/stories/13201102.htm Jai Hind Safrani]}}. From [[The Hindu]]

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