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100 1  Mahmood, Saif,|eauthor. 
245 10 Beloved Delhi :|ba Mughal city and her greatest poets /
       |cSaif Mahmood. 
264  1 New Dehli, India :|bSpeaking Tiger Publishing Pvt. Ltd,
       |c[2018] 
264  4 ©2018. 
520    A riveting resurrection of the city of poets, the city of 
       history, Saif Mahmood's learned and evocative book takes 
       us to the heart of Delhi's romance with Urdu verse and 
       aesthetics.'--Namita Gokhale. Urdu poetry rules the 
       cultural and emotional landscape of India--especially 
       northern India and much of the Deccan--and of Pakistan. 
       And it was in the great, ancient city of Delhi that Urdu 
       grew to become one of the world's most beautiful 
       languages. Through the 18th and 19th centuries, while the 
       Mughal Empire was in decline, Delhi became the capital of 
       a parallel kingdom--the kingdom of Urdu poetry--producing 
       some of the greatest, most popular poets of all time. They
       wrote about the pleasure and pain of love, about the 
       splendour of God and the villainy of preachers, about the 
       seductions of wine, and about Delhi, their beloved home. 
       This treasure of a book documents the life and work of the
       finest classical Urdu poets: Sauda, Dard, Mir, Ghalib, 
       Momin, Zafar, Zauq and Daagh. Through their biographies 
       and poetry--including their best-known ghazals--it also 
       paints a compelling portrait of Mughal Delhi. This is a 
       book for anyone who has ever been touched by Urdu or Delhi,
       by poetry or romance. 
650  0 Urdu poetry|xCriticism, interpretation etc. 
650  0 Poets, Urdu|y19th century|vBiography. 
651  0 Delhi (India)|xHistory|y18th century. 
651  0 Delhi (India)|xHistory|y19th century.