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Poets/Writers From Lucknow

Total: 59

Aalam Lakhnavi

1882 - 1952

Afqar Mohani

1887 - 1971

Afsar Meerthi

1895 - 1974

Akhtar Gopamavi

1878 - 1938

Aziz Lakhnavi

1821 - 1915

Barq Lakhnavi

1790 - 1857

Basheer Farooqi

1939 - 2019

Bedam Shah Warsi

1876 - 1936

Celebrated Naat-poet famous for his Ghazal "Bekhud kiye dete hain andaz-e-hijaabana".

Behzad Lakhnavi

1900 - 1974

Bekhud Mohani

1873 - 1940

Prominent desciple of Nasikh who served in the armies of Maratha ruler Yashwant Rao Holkar at Indore and Ghaziuddin Haider, Nawab of Awadh

Haneef Akhgar

1928 - 2009

Hasrat Mohani

1875 - 1951

Freedom fighter, member of constituent assembly which drafted Indian Constitution. He gave the slogan "Inquilab Zindabad" during freedom movement. He was a devotee of Shri Krishna. He wrote the famous ghazal "chupke chupke raat din".

Jigar Biswani

1871 - 1958

Josh Malihabadi

1898 - 1982

Kaukab Sandelvi

1894 - 1945

Nashtar Jayasi

1911 - 1979

Nazm Tabatabai

1854 - 1933

Nazm Tabatabai, one of Urdu literature’s most revered critics and eminent poets, needs no introduction. Born, Sayyad Ali Haidar, on Friday, November the 29th, 1854, in Haidarganj, Old Lucknow, Nazm Tabatabai is credited with acquainting Urdu literature with an earnest scholarly discourse and a rubric for critique. Nazm Tabatabai’s ancestors came to India from Iran and settled in Lucknow. He learned Persian and prosody under the tutelage of Mindolal Zar, and wrote sometimes under the pen-name ‘Nazm’, and sometimes ‘Haidar’. In 1868, at the age of fifteen, he moved to Matia Bridge (Kolkata) with his mother. In 1882 he was appointed to teach the princes at the Shah-e-Awadh Madrasa, Matia Bridge, Calcutta. In 1887, at the behest of Maulvi Syed Afzal Hussain Lakhnavi, then chief justice of Hyderabad, Nazm moved to Hyderabad. On February 4, 1891, he became a professor at Nizam College, Hyderabad. Among his treasured contributions to Urdu literature are, ‘Sharh-e-Ghalib’ and his collection of poems ‘Diwan-e-Tabatabai’. He passed away on 23rd May 1933, in Hyderabad, Deccan.

Qatil Ajmeri

1855 - 1950

Razmi Barabankvi

1909 - 1969

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