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29-840: The following is an example of an Urdu ghazal by Daagh Dehlvi , where the radif is " mein " while the qafiya is in -aah : nigaah , jalwa-gaah , nigaah , raah , haal-e-tabaah and aah . آفت کی شوخیاں ہیں تمھاری نگاہ میں محشر کے فتنے کھلاتی ہیں جلوہ گاہ میں aafat kii shoKhiyaa.N hai.n tumhaarii nigaah mein mehashar ke fitane khelate hai.n jalwa-gaah mein وہ دشمنی سے دیکھتے ہیں دیکھتے تو ہیں میں شاد ہوں کہ ہوں تو کسی کی نگاہ میں wo dushmanii se dekhate hai.n dekhate to hain mai.n shaad huu.N ke huu.N to kisii kii nigaah mein آتی ہے بات بات مجھے بار بار یاد کہتا ہوں دوڑ دوڑ کے قاصد سے راہ میں aatii he baat baat mujhe yaad baar baar kahataa huu.N dau.D dau.D ke qaasid se raah mein اس توبہ پر ہے ناز مجھے زاہد اس قدر جو ٹوٹ کر شریک ہوں حالِ تباہ میں

58-638: A Masnavi . The last two volumes he wrote when he was in Hyderabad. Rampur State Rampur State was a 15 gun-salute princely state of British India . It came into existence on 7 October 1774 as a result of a treaty with Oudh . Following independence in 1947, Rampur State and other princely states of the area, such as Benares and Tehri Garhwal were merged into the United Provinces . Rampur state had its capital in Rampur city and its total area

87-730: A Member of Council during the Viceroyalty of Lord John Lawrence . He built the Jama Masjid in Rampur at a cost of Rs. 300,000. He was also knighted in Agra by the Prince of Wales. He ruled for 22 years and 7 months. After his death his son Mushtaq Ali Khan took over. He appointed W. C. Wright as the Chief Engineer of the estate. He built many new buildings and canals. Nawab Hamid Ali became the new ruler in 1889 at

116-616: A haven here, adding influences of Awadhi , Hyderabad and Kashmiri cuisine . It is also known for its distinct flavours and dishes with recipes passed on from the royal kitchen, like Rampuri fish , Rampuri Korma , Rampuri mutton kebabs , Doodhiya Biryani and adrak ka halwa . Mehboob Khan was the chief khyal singer of the royal court of Rampur State, his tradition was followed by his son Inayat Hussain Khan (1849–1919) and in turn by Inyat's brothers-in-law, Haider Khan (1857–1927), and Mushtaq Hussein Khan (d. 1964), which gave rise to

145-449: A royal touch. It has a main lofty entrance gate that has an inbuilt clock tower occupied by a big clock that was imported from Britain. There are several entry-exit gates built by the Nawab . These gates are major entry-exit routes from the city. Examples are Shahabad Gate, Nawab Gate, Bilaspur Gate etc. The Rohilla State of Rampur was established by Nawab Faizullah Khan on 7 October 1774 in

174-582: Is Urdu whose name we know, O Daagh for our language is being celebrated all over India. He died in 1905 at the age of 74 in Hyderabad Deccan after a paralytic stroke . He was buried at Dargah Yousufain in Hyderabad . Dehlvi's students included Allama Iqbal , Hassan Raza Khan (1859-1908), Jigar Moradabadi (1890 – 1960), Seemab Akbarabadi and Ahasan Marharavi, though a widely quoted anecdote relates that when asked to designate his successor as

203-431: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Daagh Dehlvi Nawab Mirza Khan Daagh Dehlvi ( Urdu : نواب مرزا خان داغ دہلوی , 25 May 1831 – 17 March 1905) was a poet known for his Urdu ghazals . He belonged to the old Delhi school of Urdu poetry . He wrote romantic and sensuous poems and ghazals in simple and chaste Urdu, minimising usage of Persian words. He laid great emphasis on

232-484: Is taubaah par hai naaz mujhe zaahid is qadar jo TuuT kar shariik huu.N haal-e-tabaah mein مشتاق اس ادا کے بہت درد مند تھے اے داغ تم تو بیٹھ گئے ایک آہ میں mushtaaq is adaa ke bahot dard-ma.nd the ae DaaG tum to baiTh gaye ek aah mein In Urdu, a ghazal which has no radif is known as ghair muraddaf ghazal ; if it contains radif , it is called a muraddaf ghazal . This poetry -related article

261-659: The Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI 's court, as access to his court was very limited. He then was invited immediately and was appointed as the court poet and mentor, in 1891, to the Sixth Nizam Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI , at the age of 60. Contrary to the impression one gets from his poetry, he did not drink wine and shunned it. His couplet on Urdu language was: Urdu hai jiska naam ham jante hain Daagh Hindustan mein dhoom hamari zuban ki hai It

290-619: The Maratha Empire in 1772. The Rohillas were defeated and driven from their former capital of Bareilly by the Nawab of Oudh with the assistance of the East India Company 's troops lent by Warren Hastings . The first stone of the new Fort at Rampur was laid and the city of Rampur founded in 1775 by Nawab Faizullah Khan. Originally it was a group of four villages named Kather, the name of Raja Ram Singh. The first Nawab proposed to rename

319-640: The Rampur-Sahaswan gharana of Hindustani classical music , the latter being their ancestral place, Sahaswan , in present-day Badaun district . The following is a table delineating the succession of rulers belonging to the Royal House of Rampur: The Royal House of Rampur awards two orders of chivalry ; these knighthoods include: The majority of the recipients of the Nishan-e-Hamidiya are those of various royal families while honourees with

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348-611: The Nishan-e-Iqbal are those who have made significant contributions to academia, culture, humanitarian aid, research and society. His Royal Highness Nawab Ahmad Ali Khan of Rampur is credited with developing the dog breed known as Rampur Hound . The Rampur Hound far exceeded his expectations. He endeavoured to breed these dogs by combining the Tazi ferocious Afghan dogs with the English Greyhound , more obedient but less resistant to

377-554: The Urdu idiom and its usage. He wrote under the takhallus (Urdu word for pen name ) Daagh Dehlvi (the meanings of Daagh , an Urdu noun, include stain, grief and taint while Dehlvi means belonging to or from Dehli or Delhi). He belonged to the Delhi school of thought . His honorific Dabeer ud Dawla, Faseeh ul Mulk, Nawab Nizam Jang Bahadur, Sipah Salar, Yar-e-Wafadar, Muqrib-us-Sultan, Bulbul-e-Hindustan, Jahan Ustad, Nazim Yar Jung , were

406-511: The age of 14. Many new schools were opened during his reign, and many donations were provided to nearby colleges. He donated Rs. 50,000 to Lucknow Medical College. In 1905 he built the magnificent Darbar Hall within the Fort which now houses the great collection of Oriental manuscripts held by the Rampur Raza Library. His son Raza Ali Khan became the last ruling Nawab in 1930. Nawab Raza Ali Khan

435-462: The city 'Faizabad'. But many other places were known by the name Faizabad so its name was changed to Mustafabad alias Rampur. Nawab Faizullah Khan ruled for 20 years. He was a great patron of scholarship, and began the collection of Arabic , Persian , Turkish and Urdu manuscripts which now make up the bulk of the Rampur Raza Library . After his death, his son Muhammad Ali Khan took over. He

464-408: The common man and the elite. After Fakhroo's death in 1856, Dehlvi along with his mother left Delhi after facing turbulent times, for Rampur State and came under the aegis of Nawab of Rampur, Yusuf Ali Khan Bahadur . He went into government service there and lived well for 24 years. Dehlvi stayed in Hyderabad in 1888 for several months. He left Hyderabad after not being invited to the court by

493-624: The harsher local weather. He gave the name 'Rampur Hound' to the dogs he bred. The cuisine of the royal courts over the years gave rise to the Rampuri cuisine , developed by the chefs of the Nawabs. After the Indian Mutiny of 1857 , the khansamas (chefs) from erstwhile Mughal imperial courts shifted to Rampur, bringing along with them the Mughal cuisine tradition. Gradually people from other places also found

522-460: The leading Urdu poet of his age, he replied Bekhudain [the two Bekhuds] , referring to Bekhud Badayuni and Bekhud Dehlvi . His selected ghazals are rendered by contemporary ghazal singers, Jagjit Singh , Noor Jahan , Iqbal Bano , Ghulam Ali , Adithya Srinivasan , Malika Pukhraj , Mehdi Hassan , Abida Parveen , Begum Akhtar , Pankaj Udhas and Farida Khanum . His work consists of four volumes, consisting of 16,000 couplets and

551-572: The murder of William Fraser . Dehlvi at the age of four and his mother at age thirty four, the most sought after lady, wooed and remarried the Mughal crown prince , Mirza Muhammad Fakhroo , an heir to the last Mughal Bahadur Shah Zafar . Hence, Dehlvi had the privileged education at the Delhi Red Fort , There he received best of education and was later under tutelage of poet laureate, Mohammad Ibrahim Zauq . Later, he also took advice from Ghalib on finer nuances of Urdu literature and poetry. He

580-456: The new Nawab. He raised a regular Army, established Courts and carried out many works to improve the economic conditions of farmers. His son Muhammad Yusuf Ali Khan took over after his death. His son Kalb Ali Khan became the new Nawab after his death in 1865. Nawab Kalb Ali Khan was literate in Arabic and Persian. Under his rule the state did much work to uplift standards of education. He was also

609-554: The presence of British Commander Colonel Champion, and remained a pliant state under British protection thereafter. Faizullah Khan was a leader among the Rohillas and a member of the Rohilla dynasty . He was the son of Ali Mohammed Khan , who was a Jat boy of age eight when he was adopted by the chief of the Pashtun Barech tribe , Sardar Daud Khan Rohilla. For Rohillas, Rampur State

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638-539: The titles bestowed upon him by the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad Mir Mahbub Ali Khan . Daagh was considered one of the best romantic poets of his time by some commentators. Dehlvi was born in Kucha Ustad Dagh , Chandni Chowk in Delhi to Nawab Shamsuddin Ahmed Khan, the ruler of Loharu and Ferozepur Jhirka and Wazir Khanum , daughter of a Delhi jeweller. Dehlvi's father was hanged under charges of conspiracy in

667-625: The world. The Nawabs of Rampur sided with the British during Indian Rebellion of 1857 and this enabled them to continue to play a role in the social, political and cultural life of Northern India in general and the Muslims of United Provinces in particular. They gave refuge to some of the literary figures from the Court of Bahadur Shah Zafar . The Rampur-Sahaswan gharana of Hindustani classical music also has its origins in court musicians. Ustad Mehboob Khan,

696-510: Was 945 sq miles. Rampur state was founded by Ali Mohammad Khan 's younger son Faizullah Khan . The Jama Masjid is one of the finest piece of architecture to be found in Rampur. It resembles the Jama Masjid in Delhi to some extent. It was built by Nawab Faizullah Khan . It has a unique Mughal touch to it. There are several entry-exit gates to the masjid . It has three big domes and four tall minarets with gold pinnacles boasting of

725-509: Was a khayal singer and Veena player of the Rampur court; his son Ustad Inayat Hussain Khan (1849–1919), who trained and lived in the city, founded the gharana. The Nawabs of Rampur gave patronage to traditional music in their court. Mehboob Khan was the chief khyal singer of the royal court of Rampur State, his tradition was followed by his son Inayat Hussain Khan (1849–1919) and in turn by Inyat's brothers-in-law, Haider Khan (1857–1927), and Mushtaq Hussein Khan (d. 1964), which gave rise to

754-651: Was a very progressive ruler who believed in the Inclusion of Hindus and so appointed Lt. Col. Horilal Varma – Bar At Law as his Prime Minister. On 1 July 1949 the State of Rampur was merged into the Republic of India. Rampur today presents a slightly decayed appearance: the palaces of the Nawabs are crumbling, as are the gates and walls of the fort. However, the Library remains a flourishing institution of immense value to scholars from all over

783-470: Was also trained in calligraphy and horse riding . Dehlvi belonged to the Dabistan-e-Dehli (Dehli school of thought) and never allowed western influences on his poetry. He started reciting poetry at the age of ten and his forte was the romantic version, the ghazal . He became popular for his poetry. Unlike the elitist style by the poets of the time, his style was simple and was well received by both,

812-541: Was killed by the Rohilla leaders after 24 days, and Ghulam Muhammad Khan – the brother of the deceased, was proclaimed Nawab. The East India Company took exception to this, and after a reign of just 3 months and 22 days Ghulam Muhammad Khan was defeated by its forces, and the Governor-General made Ahmad Ali Khan, son of the late Muhammad Ali Khan, the new Nawab. He ruled for 44 years. He did not have any sons, so Muhammad Sa'id Khan, son of Ghulam Muhammad Khan, took over as

841-509: Was one of the important princely states in Hindustan. In the 19th century, the Nawabs of Rampur claimed that Ali Mohammed Khan was a Barha Sayyid and started using the title of Sayyid. However, they could not present any pedigree in the support of this claim. The Rohilla War of 1774–75 began when the Rohillas reneged on a debt they owed to the Nawab of Oudh for military assistance against

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