Mir Taqi Mir

Saif Mahmood (Independent Scholar - Asia)

Ed. by Muneeza Shamsie, Independent Scholar - Asia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 10.3.1.02: Indian Writing and Culture of the Colonial Period, 1750-1947.
Vol. editors: Claire Gallien (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), Pavan Kumar Malreddy (J W Goethe University of Frankfurt), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Nishi Pulugurtha (Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College)

Dates

Born 1 Feb 1723
Died 20 Sep 1810

Places

Born in India
Active in India

Activities

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Poet

Resources

Taqi's Works

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Mir Taqi Mir is one of two highly esteemed figures of Urdu poetry, the other being Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib. Mir was a master of the romantic ghazal genre and a great chronicler of his time. Even as he painted a compelling portrait of eighteenth century Mughal India in refreshingly accessible language, he lamented the crumbling socio-political order.

Urdu poetry has dominated the emotional and cultural landscape of undivided India for hundreds of years. Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while the Mughal empire was in spectacular decline, its capital Delhi, then known as Shahjahanabad, became the seat of Urdu poetry. Some of the most well-known poets in Urdu literature, including Sauda, Dard, Mushafi, Hatim, Zauq, Momin, Azurdah, Shefta and Dagh, made Delhi their home, as

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Citation: Mahmood, Saif. "Mir Taqi Mir". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 29 October 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14977, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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