Autobiografía y biografía
Dos primeros capítulos gratisAab-e-Hayat: The Chapter on Ghalib
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Muhammad Husain Azad · sobre Literary history and biography
The section on Mirza Ghalib (1797–1869) from Muhammad Husain Azad's Aab-e-Hayat (1880), the first history of Urdu poetry and a founding classic of modern Urdu prose. Azad, a pupil of Ghalib's rival Zauq who knew Ghalib in person, tells of his noble descent, lost pension and journey to Calcutta, his poverty, pride, marriage, religion and friends, and the ruin of Delhi in 1857; quotes many of his famous Urdu letters; lists his Persian and Urdu works; tells the story of the wedding sehra that offended the emperor and Ghalib's verse apology; and collects his celebrated witticisms, ending with his own death chronogram and a selection of ten ghazals. One of the earliest accounts of Ghalib and the source of many anecdotes still told about him, read in courses on Ghalib, Urdu literature and the culture of Mughal Delhi. Complete Urdu text from the Lucknow edition of 1900, with Azad's footnotes, a facing English translation, an introduction and a glossary. Cite as: Muhammad Husain Azad, Aab-e-Hayat (Ghalib), tr. urduintranslation.com (2026). The first chapter is free to read.
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