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Daagh Dehlvi

I lived from 1831-1905. I was from India, and am in the Asian category.

Daagh’s real name was Nawab Mirza Khan. He was born in Delhi in 1831.
Daagh lost his father, Nawab Shamsuddin Khan when he was just seven years old. Subsequently, his mother remarried the heir apparent of the Mughal Empire, Shahzada Fateh-ul-Mulk otherwise known as Mirza Fakhru, the son of the last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar.
This meant Daagh was brought up in the royal environ of the Red Fort that was the symbolic seat of illustrious power. He was also fortunate enough to acquire a princely education. The emperor, Zafar and Daagh’s stepfather, Mirza Fakhru, were poets themselves and they were the pupils of the poet laureate Sheikh Ibrahim Zauq.
Such a literary surrounding drove Daagh towards poetry and he became the youngest disciple of Zauq. In a short time he mastered the shades and technicalities of ghazal writing and began participating in the royal mushairas (poetry readings) in his early teens.

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    Saaz Ya Keena Saaz Kya Jany’
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    gazab kiya, tere vade pe aitabar kiya
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    tumhare khat main naya ik salam kis ka tha
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    ranj ki jab guftagu hone lagi
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    lutf vo ishq main paye hain ki ji janta hai
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