Imtiaz Ali ‘Arshi’
Imtiaz Ali Arshi (8 December 1905 – 25 February 1981) was an Indian research scholar best known as an authority on the works of Mirza Ghalib. He published works on Ghalib, Maktiba-e-Ghalib (1937), Intikhab-e-Ghalib (1943), culminating in his edition of Ghalib's Diwan titled Nuskha-e-Arshi published in 1958. Arshi was awarded the 1961 Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Urdu for the Diwan.
Also recorded as Imtiaz Ali Khan Arshi · Imtiyāz ʻAlī K̲h̲ān̲ ʻArshī
Imtiaz Ali ‘Arshi’
- Died
- 1981
- Nationality
- India · Dominion of India
- Occupation
- librarian · writer · poet
- Education
- Panjab University
- Honours
- Sahitya Akademi Award
- Languages
- Urdu
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Imtiaz Ali Arshi (8 December 1905 – 25 February 1981) was an Indian research scholar best known as an authority on the works of Mirza Ghalib. He published works on Ghalib, Maktiba-e-Ghalib (1937), Intikhab-e-Ghalib (1943), culminating in his edition of Ghalib's Diwan titled Nuskha-e-Arshi published in 1958. Arshi was awarded the 1961 Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Urdu for the Diwan.
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Imtiaz Ali ‘Arshi’ (1904–1981) was a librarian, poet and writer and a national of the Dominion of India and India. The librarian was born in Rampur.
Imtiaz Ali ‘Arshi’ studied at Panjab University. The librarian worked for Raza Library.
Languages used include Urdu. Imtiaz Ali ‘Arshi’ received Sahitya Akademi Award.
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Nuskha-Arshi is cited by Urdu scholar Gopi Chand Narang as the most comprehensive early attempt to publish Ghalib's ghazals in a chronological fashion, allowing for a study of the evolution in the poet's themes and techniques, though there were mistakes in the chronology. According to Narang, Arshi's Diwan was the main source for the study of Ghalib's work until a more complete and chronologically correct Diwan'-e-Raza was published by Kalidas Gupta Riza in 1995.
The authorities additionally record the headings Imtiaz Ali Khan Arshi and Imtiyāz ʻAlī K̲h̲ān̲ ʻArshī. His recorded language was Urdu.
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- 1.Rauf Parekh. Literary Notes: Imtiaz Ali Khan Arshi — a remarkable researcher. 23 February 2015.
- 2.Verma, Balraj. Diwan-e-Ghalib. Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature. 9788126011940. 2. 1055. 1988. 978-81-260-1194-0.
- 3.Gopi Chand Narang. Ghalib: Innovative Meanings and the Ingenious Mind. Oxford University Press. 2017. 9780199091515.
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