Life

Mirza Farhatullah Baig was a prominent Urdu writer of his time and wrote humor and prose. He wrote essays, taught at a high school, and worked as a translator. In 1933 he was posted as a Sessions Judge and around this time he began writing poetry. He later became the Registrar of the Hyderabad High Court

High Courts of India

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He was the son of Mirza Hashmathullah Baig and Mushraf Jahan Begum (1842–1883) Delhi, India)

Mirza Farahatullah Baig died on April 27, 1947 in Hyderabad, India.

Education

Mirza Farhatullah Baig was educated in Delhi at Hindu College

Hindu College

-India:*DRBCC Hindu College, Chennai*Gobardanga Hindu College, West Bengal State University, Gobardanga Dist., West Bengal*Gokul Das Hindu Girls College, Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh*Hindu College, University of Delhi...

 and St.Stephens College

St. Stephen's College, Delhi

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. He studied science and played cricket

Cricket

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Works and Literary Contribution

Series of Books known as "Mazameen-e-Farhat" - Most famous is "Delhi key Akhri Shama"-He wrote this book to light the last lamp of Urdu poetry and to honour and immortalize the Urdu poets of the last days of Mughal splendour.

In 1927, he wrote The Story of Nazir Ahmed published by Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu in its journal, Urdu.

External links

• http://www.dawn.com/weekly///books/archive/020818/books5.htm Karachi’s cultural delight By Bahzad Alam Khan
• http://www.iicdelhi.nic.in/program/program_detail.asp?ProgId=1883&CatgId=1 A poetic re-enactment of ‘The Last Mush’aira of Delhi’ By Bahzad Alam Khan
• http://www.dawn.com/2003/01/07/op.htm- Anjuman Tarraqqi-i-Urdu
• http://www.urdustudies.com/pdf/17/07_Werner.pdf A Gift of Ghazals by Louis Werner
• http://www.iicdelhi.nic.in/program/program_detail.asp?ProgId=1883&CatgId=1 Dehli ki Aakhri Shama

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