rkand: wrote in
Persian as well as in Urdu, and held the position of Poet Laureate
at the Court of Bahadur Shah (r. 1837-1857) the last Mogul Emperor.

HALI: a modern poet: pupil of Ghalib: recently dead: greatly admired,
chiefly by the Muslims, for his poems calling for Muslim and Indian
renascence. He received from the British Government the title of
Shams-ul-ulema.

HASAN: Mir Shulam Hasan, born at Delhi: passed his youth in Faizabad
and then came to Lucknow to join the literary circle there: was as
handsome in person as in mind, and his verse is still popular.

HATIM: one of the early poets: born about 1700, he lived till near
the end of the century: a soldier by profession, but in his old age
renounced the world and became a darwesh: his cell was near the gate
of the Imperial Palace, and many persons resorted to him for counsel.

INSHA: born in Murshedabad, lived in Lucknow about the end of the 18th
century: enjoyed the favour of Prince Suleiman Shikoh: wrote verse
in Turkish, Arabic, Persian, but was most famous for his Urdu poems,
which are elegant in style and conception.

JURAT: of Delhi, celebrated for his skill in music, astronomy and
poetry: became blind when still young: was pensioned by the Nawab
Muhabbat Khan and afterwards by Suleiman Shikoh: author of an enormous
volume of Urdu poetry composed of ghazals and of love-poems in the
modern taste. Wrote satires on the rain, the cold, smallpox, etc.
Versed in Hindu as well as Muslim poetry.

MAZHAR: of Delhi: family originally from Bokhara: learned in
jurisprudence as well as poetry: many favourite poets were his pupils:
was a Sunni, made profession of spiritual poverty, and was even reputed
to be able to work miracles: was killed by a fanatic because he
disagreed with the Shiah mourning for the death of Hussein: died in
1780, aged nearly a hundred years.

MIR DARD: author of a famous Urdu diwan: skilled in the sacred music
as sung at the assemblies of the Sufis: lived the life of a sage, the
Padishah often coming to him for counsel, though he himself never
sought the Emperor's Court.

MIR SOZ: of Bokhari ancestry, had to leave his country in time of peril
in the dress of a fakir: came to Lucknow, where he became tutor
to the Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula.

MIR TAQI: born at Agra, in his later days lived at Lucknow, under the
protection of the Nawab of Oudh: wrote many kinds of verse, but excelled
in the ghazal and the masnawi, and was the author of a biogra