Daagh Dehlvi

 Daagh Dehlvi

( (داغ دہلوی

born  

Nawab Mirza Khan (25 May 1831 – 17 March 1905) was an outstanding poet famous for his Urdu Ghazals and belonged to the old Delhi school of Urdu Poetry. He wrote romantic and sensuous poems and ghazals in simple and chaste Urdu, minimizing usage of Persian words. He laid great emphasis on the Urdu idiom and its usage. He wrote under the takhallus (Urdu word for nom de plume) Daagh Dehlvi (the meanings of Daagh, an Urdu noun, include stain, grief and taint while Dehlvi means belonging to or from Dehli or Delhi).

His honorific Dabeer ud Dawla, Faseeh ul Mulk, nawab Nizaam Jang Bahadur, Sipah Salar, Yar-e-Wafadar, Muqrib-us-Sultan, Bulbul-e-Hindustan, Jahan Ustad, Nazim Yar Jung, were the titles bestowed by the sixth Nizam of  hyderabad.