Imam Baksh Nasikh (Urdu: امام بخش ناسخ) was an Urdu poet of the Mughal era. He was the founder of the Lucknow school of Urdu poetry. In his early days he had joined the court of Nawab Mohammed Khan. He migrated to Lucknow to continue his studies. He succeeded in gaining the patronage of Meer Kazim Ali whose property he inherited. Nasikh was driven out of Lucknow when he offended the Nawab of Awadh for contemptuously refusing his patronage. Nasikh finally returned from exile after the death of Nawab Hakim Mehdi in 1837. He died in the year 1838.
The Lucknow school of ghazal, which included Mir Hasan, Jur’at, Mashafi, Insha, Rangeen, Aatish, Shah Nasir, Nasikh and Rind, tried to establish a separate poetic identity. Poets like Nasikh took painImam Baksh Nasikh (Urdu: امام بخش ناسخ) was an Urdu poet of the Mughal era. He was the founder of the Lucknow school of Urdu poetry. In his early days he had joined the court of Nawab Mohammed Khan. He migrated to Lucknow to continue his studies. He succeeded in gaining the patronage of Meer Kazim Ali whose property he inherited. Nasikh was driven out of Lucknow when he offended the Nawab of Awadh for contemptuously refusing his patronage. Nasikh finally returned from exile after the death of Nawab Hakim Mehdi in 1837. He died in the year 1838.
The Lucknow school of ghazal, which included Mir Hasan, Jur’at, Mashafi, Insha, Rangeen, Aatish, Shah Nasir, Nasikh and Rind, tried to establish a separate poetic identity. Poets like Nasikh took pains to purify Urdu by replacing all words, phrases and expressions of Indian origin by Persian counterparts which resulted in extravagant verbosity, unexpected comparisons and conceits, superabundance of similes and metaphors along with a craze for graphic and erotic descriptions of the beloved’s body. The glory of ghazal was restored to Delhi under the patronage of Bahgadur Shah Zafar....more