Pen name Nassakh Language Urdu, Persian Genre Poetry | Occupation Government officer Citizenship British India Died 1889 | |
Notable works Sukhan-e-Shuara,
Daftar-e-Bemisal,
Tazkiratul Muasirin | ||
Khan Bahadur Abdul Ghafur Nassakh (1833-1889) was a British Indian officer, writer, literary critic and collector. His penname was Nassakh.
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Family
Abdul Ghafur born in Kazi family of Faridpur in 1833. His Father Fakir Muhammad was a lawyer of Calcutta civil court. Reformer Nawab Abdul Latif was his elder brother.
Career
Abdul Ghafur joined as deputy magistrate in British Indian government. He served as deputy collector many places of Bengal Presidency including Dhaka. He organized Mushaira in places where he worked and also inspired young poets.
Literary career
Abdul Ghafur mainly wrote poetry in Urdu. Beside he also wrote in Persian. Apart from Bengali, Urdu and Persian he also knew English and Hindi.
Among his Urdu poetry are Daftar-e-Bemisal (1869), Armugan (1875), Armugani (1884). Daftar-e-Bemisal was praised by Ghalib. In Sukhan-e-Shuara (1874) and Tazkiratul Muasirin he introduced Urdu and Persian poet. Sukhan-e-Shuara is considered his most notable work.
He translated Pand Name of Persian poet Fariduddin Attar in Urdu under the title of Chashma-e-Faez in 1874. Ganj-e-Tawarikh (1873), Kanz-e-Tawarikh (1877), Ashar-e-Nassakh (1866) are his poetry works. First two contains biography of great Islamic personalities. His Intikhab-e-Nakam (1879) is on critique on marsia poetry of Mir Anis and Mirza Dabir of Lucknow. He wrote Mazhab-e-Muamma (1888) is his Persian poetry work.