This 19th-century Urdu poet is remembered as one of the great voices of Delhi, alongside Mir Taqi Mir. In the 1850s, after the fall of the Mughal court, he joined the patronage of the Rampur court in Uttar Pradesh, along with Daagh Dehlvi and Amir Meenai. Which poet is being described?

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Mirza Ghalib. Mirza Ghalib (1797 to 1869) was the towering poet of late-Mughal Delhi, writing in Urdu and Persian. His witty, melancholy verses on love and loss remain widely quoted across South Asia and are still set to music by ghazal singers today.