Mirza Ghalib

ميرزا غالب

27 December 1797 CE · 1212 AH – 15 February 1869 CE · 1285 AH

Agra → Delhi

The pre-eminent Urdu and Persian poet of the late Mughal age (1797–1869). Born in Agra, he settled in Delhi as a boy and lived most of his life in straitened circumstances, contesting his family pension. He wrote divans in both Urdu and Persian, served Bahadur Shah Zafar as court poet and poetry tutor, and his ghazals are regarded as the summit of Urdu poetry.