Mirza Ghalib's connections with Kolkata
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869) also known by the pen names of Ghalib and Asad was an Indian poet who wrote in Urdu and Persian and is renowned for his work Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula . His works describes the fall of the Mughal empire, the establishment of the British East India Company Rule and the Sepoy mutiny – the political scenario during his lifetime. Mirza 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. At the age of thirteen, Ghalib married Umrao Begum, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Bakhsh and settled at Delhi. He visited Kolkata to appeal to the East India Company to restore the full pension in lieu of his family estate annexed by the British. Ghalib had left for Kolkata on November 1826 and reached the capital of British India in February 1828. In one of his couplets, he had written: “Triumphant we reached Calcutta and washed awa
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