Ghalib

Ghalib born Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan , onDecember 1797 diedFebruary 1869,160 was the preeminent Indian Urdu and Persianlanguage poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pennames of Ghalib and Asad . His honorific was DabirulMulk, NajmudDaula. During his lifetime the Mughals were eclipsed and displaced by the British and finally deposed following the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857, events that he described. Most notably, he wrote several ghazals during his life, which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people. Ghalib, the last great poet of the Mughal Era, is considered to be one of the most popular and influential poets of the Urdu language. Today Ghalib remains popular not only in India and Pakistan but also among the Hindustani diaspora around the world.

Mirza Ghalib was born in Kala Mahal, Agra into a family descended from Aibak Turks who moved to Samarkand after the downfall of the Seljuk kings. His paternal grandfather, Mirza Qoqan Baig Khan, was a Saljuq Turk who had immigrated to India from Samarkand during the reign of Ahmad Shah . He worked at Lahore, Delhi and Jaipur, was awarded the subdistrict of Pahasu and finally settled in Agra, UP, India. He had four sons and three daughters. Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan and Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan were two of his sons.

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