Classical · 1690–1744 · Delhi – Delhi
Shakir Naji belonged to the first generation of Delhi poets who, in the wake of Wali's divan reaching the north, turned from Persian to the young Urdu of Delhi. A soldier by profession by some accounts, he wrote a direct, idiomatic ghazal that preserves the speech of early eighteenth-century Delhi. His divan is an important document of the language's formative decades.
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