Agra is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about 210 km south of the national capital New Delhi and 378 km west of the state capital Lucknow.
- AgraMirza Ghalib was born in Kala Mahal, Agra into a family of Mughals who moved to Samarkand (in modern-day Uzbekistan) after the downfall of the Seljuk kings.
- GhalibHe was employed first by the Nawab of Lucknow and then the Nizam of Hyderabad, Deccan.
- GhalibLucknow, along with Agra and Varanasi, is in the Uttar Pradesh Heritage Arc, a chain of survey triangulations created by the Government of Uttar Pradesh to boost tourism in the state.
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Mir Taqi Mir
Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself.
He spent the latter part of his life in the court of Asaf-ud-Daulah in Lucknow.
Mir was born in Agra, India (then called Akbarabad and ruled by the Mughals) in August or February 1723.
Mir Taqi Mir was often compared with the later day Urdu poet, Mirza Ghalib.
Delhi
Ancient built environment.
Major Urdu poets from Delhi are Mir Taqi Mir, and Mirza Ghalib.
In 1526, Babur a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur, from the Fergana Valley in modern-day Uzbekistan invaded India, defeated the last Lodhi sultan in the First Battle of Panipat and founded the Mughal Empire that ruled from Delhi and Agra.
Syed Ahmad Khan
Indian Muslim pragmatist, Islamic reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British India. Though initially espousing Hindu-Muslim unity, he became the pioneer of Muslim nationalism in India and is widely credited as the father of the two-nation theory, which formed the basis of the Pakistan movement.
He read the works of Muslim scholars and writers such as Sahbai, Zauq and Ghalib.
In February 1839, he was transferred to Agra and promoted to the title of Naib Munshi or deputy reader in the office of the Commissioner.
Erstwhile centres of Muslim power such as Delhi, Agra, Lucknow and Kanpur were severely affected.
Indian Rebellion of 1857
Major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.
Violence, which sometimes betrayed exceptional cruelty, was inflicted on both sides, on British officers, and civilians, including women and children, by the rebels, and on the rebels, and their supporters, including sometimes entire villages, by British reprisals; the cities of Delhi and Lucknow were laid waste in the fighting and the British retaliation.
During April, there was unrest and fires at Agra, Allahabad and Ambala.
Old Delhi
Area in the UT of Delhi, India.
It was founded as a walled city named Shahjahanabad in 1639, when Shah Jahan (the Mughal emperor at the time) decided to shift the Mughal capital from Agra.
Gali Qasim Jan in Ballimaran is the site of Mirza Ghalib's haveli, and that of Hakim Ajmal Khan
Hindustani language
Ancestors of the language were known as: Hindui, Hindavi, Zabān-e Hind, Zabān-e Hindustan , Hindustan ki boli , Rekhta, and Hindi.
Its majors centres of development included the Mughal courts of Delhi, Lucknow, Agra and Lahore as well as the Rajput courts of Amber and Jaipur.
Ghulam Ali (singer)
Pakistani ghazal singer of the Patiala Gharana.
After this cancellation, he performed at Lucknow, India., New Delhi and in Trivandrum, and Kozhikode, Kerala, India.
Aah ko chahiyye ek umr asar honey tak (Poet: The Great Mirza Ghalib)
Brij Narayan Chakbast
British Indian Urdu poet.
Chakbast was born in Faizabad (near Lucknow) in 1882.
The 2015 film Masaan starts with and contains various examples of Urdu poetry by Chakbast along with the works of Basheer Badr, Akbar Allahabadi, Mirza Ghalib and Dushyant Kumar.
Urdu poetry
Tradition of poetry and has many different forms.
According to Naseer Turabi there are five major poets of Urdu which are Mir Taqi Mir (d.1810), Mirza Ghalib, Mir Anees, Allama Iqbal and Josh Malihabadi (d.1982).
Varanasi
City on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world, even as the traditions are transformed in the face of modernization, generational changes and emigration.
It is 692 km to the southeast of India's capital New Delhi, 320 km south-east of the state capital, Lucknow, and 121 km east of Allahabad, another Hindu pilgrimage site.