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| image = Ghulam Bhik Nairang.jpg
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| name = '''Ghulam Bhik Nairang'''
| birth_date = 8 August 1876
| birth_place = Daurana near [[Ambala]], [[British India]]<ref name=Dawn1/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1165062 |author=Intizar Husain|title=COLUMN: Mullah Wahidi and the varied personalities of Delhi|publisher=Dawn (newspaper)|date=1 March 2015|access-date=22 May 2018}}</ref>
| death_date = 16 October 1952 at age 76
| occupation = [[law]], [[politics]], [[poetry]], [[Islam]]<ref name=Dawn1/>
| known for = One of the leaders of [[Pakistan movement]]<ref name=Dawn1/>
}}

'''Syed Ghulam Bhik Nairang''' (26 September 1876 – 16 October 1952), also known as ''Mir Nairang'', was a distinguished [[lawyer]], a [[poet]] and a prominent [[Pakistan Movement]] leader. He held the office of Deputy Leader, from 1938 to 1942, with the [[All-India Muslim League]] in the pre-[[partition of India|partition]] India.<ref name=Dawn1/>

==Friendship with Allama Iqbal==
He was close friends with [[Allama Muhammad Iqbal]], a college hostel-mate and a fellow poet.<ref name=Dawn1/> 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.<ref name=Dawn/>

In 2016, the evidence mentioned about Iqbal's hostel room in Nairang's article helped the [[Government College University (Lahore)|Government College]]'s staff in tracing the exact location of his room.<ref name=Dawn>[https://www.dawn.com/news/1231979 Iqbal's cubicle identified in Government College University] Dawn (newspaper), Published 10 January 2016, Retrieved 22 May 2018</ref>

==Early life and career==
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.<ref name=Dawn1/>

Nairang also was actively involved in the [[Khilafat Movement]], played a protective and key role in resisting the anti-Muslim [[Shuddhi (Hinduism)|Shuddhi movement]] by some Hindu leaders in British Punjab where they were trying to reconvert Muslims back to Hinduism.<ref name=Dawn1/>

After migrating to Pakistan, he also was a member of the first [[Constituent Assembly of Pakistan]].<ref name=Dawn1/>

==Books==
* ''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)<ref name=Dawn1>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1063500 |date=21 August 2002|title=DAWN - Features; August 21, 2002 (Iqbal, Nairang & Nadir Kakorvi - includes profile of Ghulam Bhik Nairang)|publisher=Dawn (newspaper)|access-date=23 May 2018}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nairang.org/about/ Nairang.org official website]

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[[Category:Pakistani male poets]]
[[Category:People from Ambala district]]
[[Category:Poets from Haryana]]
[[Category:Government College University, Lahore alumni]]
[[Category:All India Muslim League members]]
[[Category:Leaders of the Pakistan Movement]]
[[Category:Members of Central Legislative Assembly of India]]
[[Category:Pakistani MNAs 1947–1954]]

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