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Mir Taqi Mir

1723 - 1810

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Mir Muhammad Taqi (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), known as Mir Taqi Mir (also spelled Meer Taqi Meer), was an Urdu poet of the 18th-century Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal and is often remembered as one of the best poets of the Urdu language. His pen name (takhallus) was Mir. He spent the latter part of his life in the court of Asaf-ud-Daulah in Lucknow. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mir Taqi Mir is the 2,607th most popular writer (down from 1,806th in 2019), the 361st most popular biography from India (down from 228th in 2019) and the 40th most popular Indian Writer.

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Among writers, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 2,607 out of 7,302. Before him are André Salmon, Isaac Casaubon, Jorge Guillén, Cornelia Funke, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, and Ottavio Rinuccini. After him are D. B. Weiss, Polemon I of Pontus, Giulio Angioni, Michael Grant, Thomas Percy, and Rosario Castellanos.

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Among people born in 1723, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 20. Before him are Tobias Mayer, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Princess Mary of Great Britain, and Pehr Osbeck. After him are William Blackstone, Philip II, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, Antoine Louis, William Chambers, John Byron, and Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet. Among people deceased in 1810, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 18. Before him are Andreas Hofer, Andrianampoinimerina, Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom, Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova, and Alejandro Malaspina. After him are Jacques-François Menou, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Jacques-André Naigeon, Antoine-Denis Chaudet, József Alvinczi, and Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper.

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In India

Among people born in India, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 361 out of 1,861. Before him are Aamir Khan (1965), Mohammed Rafi (1924), Dnyaneshwar (1275), Shahid Kapoor (1981), Rattanbai Jinnah (1900), and Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865). After him are Pinarayi Vijayan (1945), Rishabhanatha (null), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Kenneth Anderson (1891), Harilal Gandhi (1888), and Joseph Vaz (1651).

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Among WRITERS In India

Among writers born in India, Mir Taqi Mir ranks 40. Before him are Anna Leonowens (1831), Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876), Andal (800), Sankardev (1449), Kuvempu (1904), and Dnyaneshwar (1275). After him are Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907), Shakuntala Devi (1929), Ibn Warraq (1946), Idries Shah (1924), Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (1908), and T. H. White (1906).

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