Hui muddat ki "GHALIB" mar gaya par
yaad aata hai.......!!!
Woh har ek baat pe kehna ke yoon hota to kya
hota……..
Mirza Ghalib was born on 27 December 1797 in Agra into a family descended from Aibak Turks who moved
to Samarkand after the downfall of the Seljuk kings. His paternal grandfather,
Mirza Qoqan Baig Khan was a Saljuq Turk who had immigrated to India from
Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan) during the reign of the Ahmad Shah (1748–54). He
worked at Lahore, Delhi, and Jaipur, was awarded the subdistrict of Pahasu
(Bulandshahr, UP) and finally settled in Agra, UP,
India. He had 4 sons and 3 daughters. Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan and Mirza
Nasrullah Baig Khan were two of his sons. Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan (Ghalibs
father) got married to Izzat-ut-Nisa Begum, and then lived at the house of his
father in law. He was employed first by the Nawab of Lucknow and then the Nizam
of Hyderabad, Deccan. He died in a battle in 1803 in Alwar and was buried at
Rajgarh (Alwar, Rajasthan). Then Ghalib was a little over 5 years of age. He
was raised first by his Uncle Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan.
Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan (Ghalibs uncle) started taking care of the three orphaned children. He was the governor of Agra under the Marathas. The British appointed him an officer of 400 cavalrymen,fixed his salary at Rs.1700.00 month, and awarded him 2 parganas in Mathura (UP, India). When he died in 1806, the British took away the parganas and fixed his pension as Rs. 10,000 per year, linked to the state of Firozepur Jhirka (Mewat, Haryana). The Nawab of Ferozepur Jhirka reduced the pension to Rs. 3000per year. Ghalibs share was Rs. 62.50 / month. Ghalib was married at age 13 to Umrao Begum, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Bakhsh (brother of the Nawab of Ferozepur Jhirka). He soon moved to Delhi, along with his younger brother, Mirza Yousuf Khan, who had developed schizophrenia at a young age and later died in Delhi during the chaos of 1857.[4]
In accordance with upper class Muslim tradition, he had an arranged marriage at the age of 13, but none of his seven children survived beyond infancy. After his marriage he settled in Delhi. In one of his letters he describes his marriage as the second imprisonment after the initial confinement that was life itself. The idea that life is one continuous painful struggle which can end only when life itself ends is a recurring theme in his poetry. One of his couplets puts it in a nutshell…….
Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan (Ghalibs uncle) started taking care of the three orphaned children. He was the governor of Agra under the Marathas. The British appointed him an officer of 400 cavalrymen,fixed his salary at Rs.1700.00 month, and awarded him 2 parganas in Mathura (UP, India). When he died in 1806, the British took away the parganas and fixed his pension as Rs. 10,000 per year, linked to the state of Firozepur Jhirka (Mewat, Haryana). The Nawab of Ferozepur Jhirka reduced the pension to Rs. 3000per year. Ghalibs share was Rs. 62.50 / month. Ghalib was married at age 13 to Umrao Begum, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Bakhsh (brother of the Nawab of Ferozepur Jhirka). He soon moved to Delhi, along with his younger brother, Mirza Yousuf Khan, who had developed schizophrenia at a young age and later died in Delhi during the chaos of 1857.[4]
In accordance with upper class Muslim tradition, he had an arranged marriage at the age of 13, but none of his seven children survived beyond infancy. After his marriage he settled in Delhi. In one of his letters he describes his marriage as the second imprisonment after the initial confinement that was life itself. The idea that life is one continuous painful struggle which can end only when life itself ends is a recurring theme in his poetry. One of his couplets puts it in a nutshell…….
By: Gulraiz kamal
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