![]() ![]() 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 Ahmad Shah (1748–54). Mirza Ghalib was born in Agra into a family descended from Aibak Turks who moved to Samarkand after the downfall of the Seljuk kings. ![]() Ghalib today remains popular not only in India and Pakistan but also amongst diaspora communities around the world. He is considered, in South Asia, to be one of the most popular and influential poets of the Urdu language. Most notably, he wrote several ghazals during his life, which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people. During his lifetime the Mughals were eclipsed and displaced by the British and finally deposed following the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857, events that he wrote of. His pen-names was Ghaliband Asad or Asad or Galib. His also known as 'Mirza Asadullah Khan Galib', 'Mirza Galib', 'Dabir-ul-Mulk' and 'Najm-ud-Daula'. Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (Urdu/Persian: مرزا اسد اللہ بیگ خان) was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from India during British colonial rule. ![]()
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