Autobiographie et biographie
Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsYadgar-e-Ghalib, Part One: The Life of Ghalib
یادگار غالب (حصہ اول)
Altaf Husain Hali · sur Biography
Altaf Husain Hali's Yadgar-e-Ghalib (1897) is the first full biography of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797–1869), the greatest poet of Urdu and the last great Persian poet of India, written by a younger poet who knew him in his last years. This edition gives the whole of Part One, Hali's life of Ghalib: his Turkish ancestry and Agra childhood, the journey to Calcutta and the quarrel with its poets, his imprisonment for gambling, his years at the court of Bahadur Shah, the Revolt of 1857 and Dastambu, the Qati'-e Burhan controversy, and then a long portrait of his character: his wit, generosity, pride, drinking, faith, friendships, home life, last illness and death, with the anecdotes that every later account of Ghalib repeats. The main early source for Ghalib's life and for literary Delhi before and after 1857. Complete Urdu text from the first edition (Nami Press, Kanpur, 1897), with a facing English translation of the prose and of all the Persian and Urdu verse, an introduction and a glossary. Part Two, Hali's anthology of Ghalib's verse and prose, is not included. Cite as: Hali, Yadgar-e-Ghalib, Part One, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026). The first chapter is free to read.
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