Autobiographie et biographie
آپ بیتی / سوانح عمری
Autobiographie et biographie
Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsBeeti Kahani (The Story of What Befell Me)
بیتی کہانی
Shahr Bano Begum
Shahr Bano Begum's Beeti Kahani, the life story of a princess of Pataudi written in the 1880s for her English pupil Miss Fletcher: her birth and splendid marriage into the house of Jhajjar, the Mutiny of 1857 and the ruin of Jhajjar, a harsh mother-in-law, a spendthrift husband, the deaths of her husband and all her children, debts, lawsuits and pension petitions, and a bitter breach with her own mother. Complete Urdu text (Wikisource) and a facing English translation, with introduction and glossary. Cite as: Shahr Bano Begum, Beeti Kahani, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/beeti-kahani. The first two chapters are free to read.
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Autobiographie et biographie
Deux premiers chapitres gratuitsAab-e-Hayat: The Chapter on Ghalib
آب حیات: غالب کا باب
Muhammad Husain Azad · sur 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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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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