Description
Mahr-e-Neemroz is a historical book in Persian and Urdu by the renowned 19th-century poet Mirza Ghalib. It is primarily a detailed account of the history of the Qajar dynasty of Persia (Iran) up to that time, rather than a novel with a fictional plot.Â
Book Summary
Mahr-e-Neemroz (which translates to “Midday Sun”) is a prose work commissioned by the last Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, who asked Ghalib to write a history of the world in the Persian style.Â
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- Historical Focus: The book focuses specifically on the history of the kings of Persia, particularly the Qajar dynasty.
- Prose Style: Unlike Ghalib’s famed poetry, this is a historical prose text, part of a larger, ambitious historical project that Ghalib undertook.
- Language: It was written in Persian, though later editions and translations also exist in Urdu.
- Author’s Context: Ghalib, who struggled financially throughout his life, depended on royal patronage and wrote this work as part of his duties under the Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar.
- Significance: The work is valued for Ghalib’s unique prose style and his intellectual approach to history and the world, even though it is less famous than his ghazals and personal letters.Â
In essence, the book is a historical chronicle, not a story with a conventional summary of characters and plot points in the modern sense.
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