The critic/poet/writer Shamsur Rahman Faruqui explains that the convention of having the "idea" of a lover or beloved instead of an actual lover/beloved freed the poet-protagonist-lover from the demands of realism. In keeping with the conventions of the classical ghazal, in most of Ghalib's verses, the identity and the gender of the beloved is indeterminate. This work is considered his paramount contribution to Urdu poetry and literature. Before Ghalib, the ghazal was primarily an expression of anguished love but Ghalib expressed philosophy, the travails and mysteries of life and wrote ghazals on many other subjects, vastly expanding the scope of the ghazal. The first such elucidation or Sharh was written by Ali Haider Nazm Tabatabai of Hyderabad during the rule of the last Nizam of Hyderabad. Numerous elucidations of Ghalib's ghazal compilations have been written by Urdu scholars. He had himself remarked during his lifetime that although his age had ignored his greatness, it would be recognized by later generations.Īlthough Ghalib himself was far prouder of his poetic achievements in Persian, he is today more famous for his Urdu ghazals. Ghalib today remains popular amongst Urdu speakers not only in India and Pakistan but also amongst diaspora communities around the world.He never worked for a livelihood, lived on either state patronage, credit or the generosity of his friends. He is considered, in South Asia, to be the one of the most popular and influential poets of the Urdu language. Most notably, he wrote several ghazals during his life, which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people. During his lifetime the Mughals were eclipsed and displaced by the British and finally deposed following the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857, events that he wrote of. Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (Urdu/Persian: مرزا اسد اللہ بیگ خان ), pen-name Ghalib (Urdu/Persian: غالب, ġhālib means dominant) and (former pen-name) Asad (Urdu/Persian: اسد, asad means lion) (27 December 1797 - 15 February 1869), was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from India during British colonial rule.
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