Khan Dowran VII
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Khan Dowran VII was a Mughal statesman and general in the eighteenth century. Originally Khwaja Asim, he was made Samsam ud-Daula Khan-i Dauran and was the Mir Bakshi and Amir-ul-Umara. He was the hea
Depiction of the Battle of Karnal
Scene from a Mushaira
Mir Taqi Mir
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Mir Muhammad Taqi, known as Mir Taqi Mir, was an Urdu poet of the 18th-century Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of the
Khan Dowran VII
…it left one open to ridicule and criticism. Khan-i Dauran also owned a big library. He fixed a daily allowance for the famous Urdu poet of the time, Mir Taqi Mir. Once he was pleased with a Kashmiri poet, Mullah Sata'i, and rewarded him with two thousand rupees. But the latter requested the Mir Bakhshi for a…
Mir Taqi Mir in 1786
Mir Taqi Mir, Lucknow, 1800-10