# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ghalib
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:46:20.568Z

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birthDate: "1797-12-27"
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livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan was born on 27 December 1797, as the Mughal Empire entered its final decades and British colonial rule tightened its grip on India. Writing in both Persian and Urdu, he produced a Persian body of work at least five times the length of his Urdu output, but it was the Urdu ghazals that secured his legacy. His verse tackled love, loss, philosophy, the human condition, and the socio-political upheaval surrounding him with a complexity and depth that reshaped the literary conventions of his era. He lived most of his years in poverty, dying on 15 February 1869. Today his work remains widely read across South Asia and its diaspora, the intricate imagery and layered meanings still unmistakable.