Mirza Ghalib Birthday, Real Name, Age, Weight, Height, Family, Facts, Death Cause, Contact Details, Wife, Affairs, Bio & More
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PERSONAL INFORMATION
REAL NAME
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan
NICK NAMES
Asad
BIRTHDAY
BORN ON DAY
Wednesday
BIRTHPLACE
Kala Mahal, Agra, India.
DIED AT AGE
71 Years 1 Months 19 Days
DEATHDATE
February 15, 1869
DEATHPLACE
Chandni Chowk, Delhi, India.
PROFESSION
ZODIAC
CAPRICORN
Physical Stats
CHEST
N/A
BICEPS
N/A
WAIST
N/A
HEIGHT
N/A
WEIGHT
N/A
Mirza Ghalib Family Members
Parents
FATHER
Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan
Mirza Ghalib Marriage, Affairs and Children
Fame & Address
DEBUT
Started composing Poetry at Early Age
FAMOUS FROM/AS
Famous for his Urdu ghazals
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Some Lesser Known Facts About Mirza Ghalib
- Did Mirza Ghalib takes alcohol? Yes. He used to drink French Wine.
- Mirza Ghalib was non vegetarian.
- At the small age of 13, he was married to Nawab Ilahi Bakhsh daughter Umrao Begum and he considers her marriage as a second imprisonment for her after his life itself.
- His wife gave birth to 7 children but no one survived every child never lived more than 15 months after that he adopted her wife's nephew, Arif.
- In 1850 he was awarded by Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II with the title Dabir-ul-Mulk and due to this he also got the title of Najm-ud-daulah.
- The addition name 'Mirza' is given to him by the Bahadur Shah Zafar II and he also awarded him by the title of the Mirza Nosha as in 1984 Bahadur Shah Zafar II appointed him as a tutor for him in poetry later for his son too.
- he knows many languages along with Urdu. He knows Persian and Turkish as he was educated in Persian and Arabic.
- He wrote his first when he was just 11 years old.
- The born place of Mirza Ghalib in Agra has been changed into the Indrabhan Girls? Inter College and the room where he was born is still preserved.
- As he was a Muslim But For Ramzan he never fasted and when in 1857 during the first rebellion police took in in front of Colonel Burn he said 'I am half Muslim because I drink wine, but I don?t eat pork'.
- Ghalib?s favorite student was Munshi Hargopal Tufta.
- As an editor of Emperor?s verses, he worked in the Red Fort before the Revolt of 1851. He was there by nine go for lunch and then in evening, he flies kites with the emperor.
- For gambling he was arrested was police in 1847 and got a fine of 200 and hard labor.
- At the age of 70, his listening power and memory are gone even his hands shivered but still, he was mentally alert.
- 'Ghalib Memorial' is none another than is the home 'Gali Qasim Jaan, Ballimaran, Chandni Chowk' of Ghalib.
- Was Mirza Ghalib in the habit of Smoking? NA.
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