Special on 15 October, Day of Remembrance. Freedom fighter Mahmood Khan Bengaluru

Mahmud Khan Bengaluru, who used his pen as a weapon and fought against British rule as a literary warrior, was born in 1887 in Bangalore, Karnataka state.
He became popular as an Urdu poet at a very young age and later did several small jobs.
Unable to tolerate the dominance and atrocities of the British rulers, he wrote poems to expose the British government's wrongdoings and inspired people to follow the path of the freedom movement.
In 1911, he was appointed editor of an Urdu weekly, Khaseem-ul-Akbar.
He published poems and other articles that questioned the government's wrongdoings and encouraged freedom fighters.
Unable to tolerate the sharp and fiery articles published in the weekly, the British government pressured the publishers and removed Mahmud Khan from the weekly.
Unfazed by these retaliatory acts of the government, Mahmud Khan continued to write under the pseudonym “Seemab Bengaluru” in various other magazines, criticizing the government's actions and raising awareness among people about the defeats suffered by the British army during World War I.
Angered by this, British authorities imposed a ban on his writings and the magazines that published them.
Eventually he returned to Bangalore, where he took a job at the Ahle Islam orphanage located on Dickens Road, now known as the Muslim Orphanage, where he provided invaluable creative service.
There, he focused on writing while working hard for the development of the orphanage.
Debunking misinformation about Tipu Sultan, he published a book titled “Sultanat‑e‑Khudad” in 1939.
In 1939, he published a book titled “Haider Ali”.
In 1947, he published the Urdu version of William Kirkpatrick's English book, titled “Sahafie Tipu Sultan”, along with Tipu Sultan's letters.
He dedicated it to the youth fighting against the English for India's independence.
Although all his books became very popular, he could not escape financial difficulties due to a lack of business acumen.
Freedom fighter Mahmud Khan Bengaluru fought against the British government, using his pen like a sword, overcoming all prohibitions, restrictions, and financial problems.
He passed away on 15 October 1958.

References: The Immortals‑2, by Syed Nasir Ahmad, compiled by Hasrat Ali, Sherpur District, Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, Phone number 8580533689.