Zafar Ali Khan

Zafar Ali Khan ki Nazmen (Poems of Zafar Ali Khan)

ظفر علی خاں کی نظمیں

Zafar Ali Khan

Sixteen poems by Maulana Zafar Ali Khan (1873-1956), editor of the Lahore newspaper Zamindar and the fighting poet of the Indian freedom movement, with "The Editor's Fate", a short comic play of 1913 about an Urdu editor ruined by the Press Act. Poems of India and freedom: "India", "Swaraj", "The Revolution of India", "Duty and Debt", Britain's "war with India", Cawnpore and Calcutta; and poems of faith, fellowship and letters: a hymn, praise of the Prophet and his four companions, two poems on Krishna, an address to the ghazal poets of the age, and a comic quarrel over a Punjabi word. Complete Urdu text with a facing line-by-line English translation, introduction and glossary. Cite as: Zafar Ali Khan, Zafar Ali Khan ki Nazmen, tr. urduintranslation.com (2026), https://www.urduintranslation.com/works/zafar-ali-khan-ki-nazmen. The first two chapters are free to read.

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