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ZIKR - | - MIR
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF

MIR
TAQI
MIR URDU POET OF
18TH CENTURY
MUGHAL INDIA )

Translated by:- C.M.NAIM

NAME :- Anushka singh

ROLL N0.:-2022/177
COURSE:- B.A (HONS) PHILOSOPHY
SUBMITTED TO :- SUSHMITA MA'AM
 as
Min Taai mit nam

Dubammat aqi (1723 -1810),

te guatist Undu boets o the Indian
subcantinnt He Corsidwud
urdu ghazal
Chanctizd, yical and fasnianate
Eausiens las and the cemhlesties
fhunan Ematens
knoum fot
hich n
lund insi ghts tobe
igky gdad and aiday
ftenleoad askhutacskben'
Agna India , m1723
n
His eal nam as Mhammad Jaai bt he
sdaftid tke ken
a
uceived
as
tiadtianal
poetie
He a Cducatin
studind trabio
Mis blend beuian
and indias touch.
a timeltuous lilu, bt
hand Mis mated. by heonal
Tbragrdisn andandaits
and on
inllunesd hin
min Cotinusd to ite
 and &rs hi nnes met thoughts and
emotions untal Ais detk n 1e10
ucnou loung behing
ins nmly cattitid hin
Contamharues
mtact fute seniatme
Hin hare been cibated.
fo theis imalass seay and ha
instind
Ubdu
Ceuntl
storatwe
socts ancd
Mins inluence snded
las he also met
aecial
budding fosts and
layud alimat
danadamt and

Unden hu guidance
the Famau boet
Miu s thu socio boiical
and cultu that t
a S unparalleled
Semaens deiished in thw oualm
usdu

hoal kumaa jaane kaij

hane -na han

jaane
 Jothumain
about
man
ins ale
owce
inomaliop
hich Carcs th
hood
þendod atobioga
om hi
m
Lucknu.
2ike - i-mir
the the ightunth
whict
Mughal
banlatd
otiginally
annolatd and ntoduced by
C"moNaim
The tanlat slants tte ioductio
Muhiyuddin
Hl
th ast angblamg
H Gueat Mughals
did while on. in

Hh deccan then goee nto Hhe Guuat

Guandson rangab empuns Muhamnad
shat whemhamnad shah died
I74 te gan Plundoes thmad ashah
Abdali came and
Camfleted ei Congueat he Gangtic
pain. andthemsehee
otr the Maata?
be , rdatn
the ignig duscedan o 6abur.
mty maxks
wdu uhic
He
Emegenc
 called-Rekha Hndi r eindud and uaz

ead
itg
o hesiam.
and
lagug
o gangtie
Elte
plai inst -
laty in Dalhi duing the midle
ducadas the emy oet
inguisttke Schola
ii boctinza lazahancin-ina:i
with oeoartable,
twe
gennatisn
Aatam ,
hastn
Undu boets
6u, Yagtn,
ineading
Davd, Ba'im
and tke puminentA
ghagalkr--mit and he autho af

(tottallu)
mehammad mame
mis bo'm in Aa and
lied and kumhet, and didn uctnsus
oihambd sdin yotttd, doun ins death
mauscnift o kiF veieR

Min s
God's Jin th, callid
huctno
ASthatt"; and iAbowheod
on te bald and
te 1st

burid
gelatinei . uithhi oun dei
out diansDinesot hioahaama
boctyahsia
to
these
also knaun af Zainuddin hmad

th 274
mukammad Muhi, kniday
the sha'bas ot e 9Same

Min te
1135 Hijri Qncl aftis his Fathrs
attess
dot Jsuent to Dallhi only
aoentaen and stayed
cnd
onded þrsminnt nobles.
Oat n
hucknou
ftor acalamty
imuitthon
Cames to

thaumatic
þad
föut his belaed daughte
thin his son died anda
yeat also dufatlid
and bcaw guaty offectd
public
sucluand lud
(NM)Nhat -al- shu ana; a shot, colleetion
alsatie ancdotis enditld faiz -j-mu (FM);
te bousent book Jiky --min (2m), anda

miS h Uodu Masnangs

Ykat -al- shu ara CN&) i Min's st tkin
hich hu claimed to be te
boot a a tazkia
bisgraphical dicjmary of undu boet Canhiled
model o
th books n paniam boets.
tauz-i mis (Em) n short booti Cmaining
nan aliee abot Salis, aai
and
jokes was alo In
accad with He aatualtadition
and India.
Emotionae and bhyical tai and cantinud
tin but latin Som Royal
thysician
themscle?
took
and
him and
decided t
Caunsal,
u l amng
g re im a

to andd ten o
I od to the duatth
wn handud bole
About Foun jensd hi,
Funal oocesin.
Then GM- Nabnm has Batio dued hin Fathe
Hi thurs mariagas etc.
and atry we gt to kheu ttat Mn
tuaiee amol ti
imlf.
Son and
maied
duugtey also,
had

Histwo cSom Zan

ane msnind
bzkia oamtild meu hon Heare
Yin's deth mentim a wman hoet
named Bepum and dscibu h t o hane

lato
danghter.
C-m. Nam boys tat is lastng
tame Susts n hi Usnde poty
-tawo yea? bfoe hin
ast miMin had
had stefd (h

Uoudu hw wnot nlay tw thouaand

herian.
Min did not wite bse
tu ha,
taz kira
heweys .laft
a.
 mast rocious
mest mercifal"
this lin in his auto bieynap
and poraiss God, Almightyt
2iky i- muH an unwual dowmentm
Mughal Thdia Min a foct
hi ghazals
as -well
el0 as in biam seh
sut as
Somboe nd
mimoH
autobiagnaphical gceunt
Min at guatin þain to descile
lies and aecaglishmnts nds
and membens
siuation
well eabecially
boot thoseTomuluoustimes
alao unu Sua inthat he
and
short
to de wit oibald jokks tat
ttat hae nahing
to ulate moe his taths
|life thas i youl 9t
get to ead
1-3 os fon God and nett 4 5 tagee
his Fathrs lines
 ate fewbnal details andeakecially
hi
his
gading
iafeinal tiiumphs (and diattointment)
alslittt
ony touchud opon sccahionaly
ie to pomine
much discusion abot
|i cat end at
Neentales

ainds and
it

feusintousting
atating
acquintances
book
tales
a fect)
Healo
in Tndia ot those timos and th Enomous

did nat himsel witss all thi

it brnt a
account
and cntainly his
aneCsnvn
nalotd
Cingy a

ooctiaily uintid in tetoti

what kowse?
fhce fstiang thad
haflning
cumbhd down! kod eg there

2) In shott the dcline

inatibiliy
 amd dabndnce -ty te Snd

3) |hare
.ham naned it 2ity -i-mi, ancl
enddured Gndlass kardshi
Abanatim
the
that it uachee
smeone

ttw end thy do add ub

oni daLl pictiou ali Indian
Hat
Aids am þolui cal mattens thee a humbH
o sccenul Senes
matt and dificing,
Secual malaay caas
fasticula homoseual
obesion
tackud n at th nd
nanatire odd endto the book
But
gokar Krom that
fron and as
otenclainy
hot. Thu otes themchel
auilras and much e hnouy
tied to He mes aad the Cultue.
( modt i t despit
C.M. Nums t tánalaio, ).
 C.M. Naim oufeents the bootk
4 shot (24) toduci intoduces
and t e this
land to hi oth 0otk. as wel as
geneal )
The tianslatim Gcknsiely angtatid
(415 oetnote J20 tageg t teoct )
Mam

inbuding, too gualy,

memet Campleatiat
its ofter, about, and
maving, abou! mueh
unlahlacnd.
Naimhas þraentid uadable English
esion
thougs at least
Sone)ohat

danaandin
Cult.
tot
familia ceith He heçod andA
Ziky- i m an

acadmic audience
odd and hoe that make t
intanest to broad audie nce.
and in de a cligr bictin
uhat he Saul, hat he kA and ote
Llood.
Inteuting Unct and well þrented as
wel
toamslatd by C.M. Nain
 by he uthar,

ocor Toofhrint a e an account of ow

account
fes
amicnt
cdust -keap.
The keorcms cont kolda bwekesen doun: see
how a nlles 'Sye.

body has
has ho wot
This mould thas a pra

and ent
belore

GodsGrisknce
lamp.
I am beatick amd lin ale alae
me Ckange siles.
hre has be that has
hlacol botk
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