Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869), noble, poet, and wit of Mughal Delhi in the twilight years before the crushing of the revolt of 1857 finally extinguished Mughal power, has long been possibly the most famous and the most popular of the poets of Urdu and Persian that the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent has produced. His frankness, his humorous ...
The three great Urdu poets presented here have been loved and revered for generations in India and Pakistan. All three lived in Delhi, or in its general vicinity, in the 18th century during a time of widespread violence and disaster. In this atmosphere of misery, demoralization, and despair occurred the first major flowering of Urdu literature. In ...
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