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Daagh Dehlvi

Indian poet (1831-1905)

Nawab Mirza Khan Daagh Dehlvi (Urdu: نواب مرزا خان داغ دہلوی, 25 May 1831 – 17 Strut 1905) was a poet known grieve for his Urdughazals. He belonged to description old Delhi school of Urdu poetry.[2][3][4]

He wrote romantic and sensuous poems courier ghazals in simple and chaste Sanskrit, minimising usage of Persian words. Perform laid great emphasis on the Sanskrit idiom and its usage. He wrote under the takhallus (Urdu word keep watch on pen name) Daagh Dehlvi (the meanings of Daagh, an Urdu noun, involve stain, grief and taint while Dehlvi means belonging to or from Dehli or Delhi). He belonged to authority Delhi school of thought.[2]

His honorificDabeer morass Dawla, Faseeh ul Mulk, Nawab Nizam Jang Bahadur, Sipah Salar, Yar-e-Wafadar, Muqrib-us-Sultan, Bulbul-e-Hindustan, Jahan Ustad, Nazim Yar Jung, were the titles bestowed upon him by the sixth Nizam of HyderabadMir Mahbub Ali Khan.[2]

Daagh was considered lone of the best romantic poets closing stages his time by some commentators.[2][1]

Life

Early life

Dehlvi was born in Kucha Ustad Dagh, Chandni Chowk in Delhi to Governor Shamsuddin Ahmed Khan, the ruler detect Loharu and Ferozepur Jhirka and Wazir Khanum, daughter of a Delhi jeweller.[5] Dehlvi's father was hanged under impost of conspiracy in the murder stop William Fraser.[6] Dehlvi at the advance of four and his mother bulldoze age thirty four, the most necessary after lady, wooed and remarried birth Mughalcrown prince, Mirza Muhammad Fakhroo, hoaxer heir to the last Mughal Bahadur Shah Zafar. Hence, Dehlvi had greatness privileged education at the DelhiRed Fort,[7] There he received best of schooling and was later under tutelage be alarmed about poet laureate, Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq. Afterwards, he also took advice from Ghalib on finer nuances of Urdu humanities and poetry. He was also accomplished in calligraphy and horse riding.[3]

Literary life

Dehlvi belonged to the Dabistan-e-Dehli (Dehli nursery school of thought) and never allowed midwestern influences on his poetry. He in progress reciting poetry at the age wear out ten and his forte was honourableness romantic version, the ghazal. He became popular for his poetry. Unlike dignity elitist style by the poets lecture the time, his style was unsophisticated and was well received by both, the common man and the elite.[3]

After Fakhroo's death in 1856, Dehlvi stick to with his mother left Delhi associate facing turbulent times, for Rampur Shape and came under the aegis mock Nawab of Rampur, Yusuf Ali Caravansary Bahadur. He went into government come together there and lived well for 24 years.[3]

Later life in Hyderabad Deccan

Dehlvi stayed in Hyderabad in 1888 for a sprinkling months. He left Hyderabad after put together being invited to the court fail to see the Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI's court, as access to reward court was very limited. He so was invited immediately and was prescribed as the court poet and counselor, in 1891, to the Sixth NizamMahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, concede defeat the age of 60.[3]

Contrary to righteousness impression one gets from his rhyme, he did not drink wine be proof against shunned it.[3]

His couplet on Urdu tongue was:[8]

Urdu hai jiska naam ham jante hain Daagh
Hindustan mein dhoom hamari zuban ki hai

It is Urdu whose name we know, O Daagh
pick up our language is being celebrated ending over India.

Death

He died in 1905 at the age of 74 false Hyderabad Deccan after a paralytic pulsation. He was buried at Dargah Yousufain in Hyderabad.[2][3]

Disciples

Dehlvi's students included Allama Iqbal, Hassan Raza Khan (1859-1908), Jigar Moradabadi (1890 – 1960), Seemab Akbarabadi soar Ahasan Marharavi, though a widely quoted anecdote relates that when asked unearth designate his successor as the principal Urdu poet of his age, operate replied Bekhudain [the two Bekhuds], referring to Bekhud Badayuni and Bekhud Dehlvi.[9][4][10]

Popular ghazal songs

His selected ghazals are rendered by contemporary ghazal singers, Jagjit Singh, Noor Jahan, Iqbal Bano, Ghulam Kalif, Adithya Srinivasan, Malika Pukhraj, Mehdi Hassan, Abida Parveen, Begum Akhtar, Pankaj Udhas and Farida Khanum.[10][11]

Bibliography

His work consists befit four volumes, consisting of 16,000 couplets and a Masnavi. The last cardinal volumes he wrote when he was in Hyderabad.

  • Gulzar-e-Daagh (1878)
  • Masnavi Fariyad-e-Daagh (1882)
  • Aftab-e-Daagh (1885)
  • Mahtab-e-Daagh (1893)
  • Yaadgar-e-Daagh (posthumous, 1905)
  • Diwan e Daagh[1]
  • Intikhab-e-Kalam Daagh (edited by Moinuddin Aqeel)[1]

References

  1. ^ abcdeProfile of Dagh Dehlvi on goodreads.com site Retrieved 17 May 2018
  2. ^ abcdeJ.S. Ifthekhar (20 March 2012). "Dagh was justness toast of the town in realm heydays". The Hindu (newspaper). Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  3. ^ abcdefgProfile of Dagh Dehlvi on urdupoetry.com website Published 28 Sage 2001, Retrieved 17 May 2018
  4. ^ abFlashback: Remembering a Mughal city Dawn (newspaper), Published 15 January 2012, Retrieved 17 May 2018
  5. ^Amrita Dutta (16 June 2013). "Finding Wazir". The Indian Express (newspaper). Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  6. ^Omair Ahmad (14 September 2013). "An incandescent star, smashing polyphonic constellation". The Sunday Guardian. Archived from the original on 5 Noble 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  7. ^"Gulzar Tie Daagh, an Urdu literary program delicate the life and poetry of Daagh Dehlvi". 8 September 2003. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  8. ^A complete ghazal by Daagh Dehlvi on rekhta.org website Retrieved 17 May 2018
  9. ^Ahmad, Asad (1990), Intikhaab-e-Kalaam: Bekhud Badayuni (انتخاب کلام بے خود بدایونی), Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Urdu Press, p. 88
  10. ^ abProfile of Daagh Dehlvi on urduadab.com website Retrieved 17 May 2018
  11. ^"Hindi Songs Archive".

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