TABAN: of Delhi: as famous for his beauty as for his poetic talent:
pupil of Hatim, and was a friend of Mazhar and Sauda: was descended
from the Prophet on both father's and mother's side.

WALI: of the Deccan, the first to write an Urdu Diwan: is considered
the Father of Urdu poetry: born at Aurungabad, wrote in the latter
half of the 17th century. He held a just balance between Sunnis and
Shiahs, and did not flatter any Ruler in his verses. He knew the
literature and art of Europe and wrote many mystical and spiritual
poems.

YAKRANG: one of the officers of the Emperor Muhammad Shah (r. 1719-48):
lived in dignity and honour at Delhi.

ZAHIR: a well-known modern poet, lived at Rampur at the Court of Nawab
Kalbe Ali Khan, afterwards at the Court of the Nawab of Tonk, and
finally at Hyderabad, in the literary circle of the Nizam, by whom
he was much appreciated and rewarded.

ZAUQ: a celebrated poet at the Court of Bahadur Shah (r. 1837-57):
was his teacher in the arts of verse: compiler of an anthology Of poems:
is said to have written one hundred thousand verses: is still highly
popular and much quoted.

ZAFAR: or Bahadur Shah, was the Padishah of Delhi, the last Mogul
Emperor, and lived 1768-1862: son of Akbar II.: was over 60 years of
age when he came to the throne: himself a poet and a good judge of
music and painting, he gathered round him literary men and artists:
of fine countenance and distinguished manners, and extremely loved
and admired by his subjects: skilled in all kinds of poetry, and some