Mirza Ghalib

Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (Urdu: مرزا اسد اللٌٰه بیگ خان‎; 27 December 1797 – 15 February 1869),[1] likewise known by the nom de plumes of Ghalib (Urdu: غالب‎, romanized: Ġālib, lit. 'dominant') and Asad (Urdu: اسد‎, romanized: Asad, lit. 'lion'), was an Indian poet.[2] His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula. During his lifetime, the previously declining Mughal domain was obscured and uprooted by the British East India Company Rule lastly removed after the loss of the First Indian War of Independence (Sepoy Mutiny) of 1857; these are depicted through his work.[3]