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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Pearay Mohan<br />
| image = Pearay Mohan.jpg<br />
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| caption = Pearay Mohan (family album)<br />
| birth_name = Pearay Mohan Dattatreya<br />
| birth_date = 1895<br />
| birth_place = Lahore<br />
| death_date = 23 December 1936<br />
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| other_names = <br />
| occupation = Lawyer, [[Lahore High Court]]<br>Writer<br>Politician<br />
| years_active = 1914-1936<br />
| known_for = <br />
| notable_works = ''Fasānah-i-Jung-i-Yurap'' (1914)<br>''[[An Imaginary Rebellion and How It was Suppressed]]'' (1920)<br />
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'''Pearay Mohan Dattatreya''' (1895 - 23 December 1936) was an Indian lawyer, senior assistant editor of ''[[The Tribune (India)|The Tribune]]'', and author of ''[[An Imaginary Rebellion and How It was Suppressed]]'' (1920), published shortly after the release of the [[History of the Indian National Congress|Indian Congress]] report on the Punjab disturbances of 1919, and in which included a foreword by [[Lala Lajpat Rai]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
Pearay Mohan was born in 1895 in [[Lahore]], to [[Brij Mohan Dattatreya Kaifi]], an Urdu and Persian scholar and poet.<ref name=Bakaya1999>{{cite book |title=An Imaginary Rebellion And How It Was Suppressed |last=Bakaya|first=Ravi M.|volume=1 |date=1920 |publisher=Gyan Publishing House |location=Lahore |chapter=From the editor|page=xi-xvi}} (reprint of Pearay Mohan's 1920 original book with adjusted title (1999))</ref><ref name=Bakaya2005>{{cite journal |last1=Bakaya |first1=Ravi M. |title=Dr. Ram Mohan Datatreya |journal=Kasmir Sentinel |date=September 2005 |volume=10 |issue=7,8,9 |pages=22-23 |url=https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/7884335/entinel-panun-kashmir|language=en|via=yumpu}}</ref> In 1914 he co-authored with the journalist, Bishan Sahai Azad, a text in [[Urdu]] on the story of [[First World War|the war in Europe]], titled ''[[The Story of the War in Europe|Fasānah-i-Jung-i-Yurap]]''.<ref name=Das2018>{{cite book |last1=Das |first1=Santanu |title=India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs |date=2018 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-08158-1 |page=106 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LvxsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA106 |language=en |chapter=Ambivalence and dissent: from war pamphlets to women's folksongs}}</ref> In 1915 he graduated from [[Government College University, Lahore|Government College]], Lahore, having received the top prize in economics and philosophy.<ref name=Bakaya2005/> He gained a law degree in 1917 and began practicing in Lahore, before being called to the [[Bar (law)|Bar]].<ref name=Bakaya1999/><ref name=THR1920>{{cite journal |title=Our Library Table |journal=The Hindustan Review |date=1920 |volume=41-42 |page=87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iepAAQAAMAAJ |language=en}}</ref><br />
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In December 1919 Mohan wrote an account of martial law in Punjab, titled ''[[An Imaginary Rebellion and How It was Supressed]]'', published in 1920 shortly after the release of the [[History of the Indian National Congress|Indian Congress]] report on the Punjab disturbances of 1919, and in which included a foreword by [[Lala Lajpat Rai]].<ref name=Condos2017>{{cite book |last1=Condos |first1=Mark |title=The Insecurity State |date=2017 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-41831-7 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLYrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8|chapter=Introduction: fear, panic, and the violence of Empire|page=8 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=THR1920/> In it, he criticised the British Raj for fabricating enemies and situations for the purpose of expanding harsh laws such as the [[Rowlatt Act]].<ref name=Condos2017/> Such laws, he noted, may be used to cause "widespead injustice and terror...when the local government is in a state of panic or excitement".<ref name=Condos2017/> He also believed that the approver [[Hans Raj (approver)|Hans Raj]] worked with the British to gather crowds at [[Jallianwalla Bagh]] shortly prior to the [[Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre|massacre there]].<ref name=Pathak2007>{{cite book |last1=Pathak |first1=Rashmi |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yERpZ6s156cC&pg=PA58 |title=Punjab Through the Ages |date=2007 |publisher=Sarup & Sons |isbn=81-7625-738-9 |edition=2nd |volume=3 |location=New Delhi |page=58 |language=en |chapter=Firing in the Bagh}}</ref> Upon its release it was banned and copies confiscated by the [[British Raj|British government in India]].<ref name=Bakaya2005/><ref name=Walia2006>{{cite news |last1=Walia |first1=Varinder |last2=Bagga |first2=Neeraj |title=Jallianwala Bagh revisited|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060413/aplus.htm |access-date=23 November 2024 |work=The Tribune |date=13 April 2006}}</ref> In November 1920 he joined ''[[The Tribune (India)|The Tribune]]'', for which he became senior assistant editor, working with [[Kali Nath Roy]].<ref name=Walia2006/><ref name=Singha2020>{{cite book |last1=Singha |first1=Radhika |title=The Coolie's Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914-1921 |date=2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-752558-6 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k-MJEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA293|chapter=The ends of War: homecoming for the Indian soldier and follower, 1914-21|page=293 |language=en}}</ref><br />
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Mohan brought several cases to court, including some against the [[Indian Railways|Railway]] for reserving special seats for Anglo-Indians on trains.<ref name=Bakaya2005/> In 1930 he successfully filed a suit against the Secretary of State for India, for his own wrongful search and detention by the senior superintendent of police of Lahore, [[James Alexander Scott|James Scott]], when the [[Simon Commission]] arrived in Lahore on 30 October 1928.<ref name=Bakaya2005/><ref>{{cite news |title=Mr J. A. Scott denies allegations |work=Civil & Military Gazette |date=3 July 1930 |location=Lahore |page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Journalist's pursuit for damages: RS.100 for wrongful restraint |work=Civil & Military Gazette |date=16 August 1930 |location=Lahore |page=6}}</ref> He later became senior vice-president of the Punjab Journalists’ Association, and was planning to contribute further in politics.<ref name=Bakaya2005/><br />
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Mohan died on 13 December 1936, at the age of 41 years.<ref name=Bakaya2005/><br />
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==Selected publications==<br />
* {{cite book |title=An Imaginary Rebellion And How It Was Suppressed (1920) |date=1920 |publisher=Khosla Brothers |location=Lahore |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.15881/page/n3/mode/2up}} {{efn|Original from 1920, whereas the reprint of 1999 was printed in two volumes for being lengthy.}}<br />
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