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Peerzada Ghulam Ahmad (August 1887 − 9 April 1952), known by his pen name as Mahjoor, was a poet of the Kashmir Valley, along with contemporaries, Zinda Kaul, Abdul Ahad Azad, and Dinanath Nadim.[2][3][4] He is especially noted for introducing a new style into Kashmiri poetry and for expanding Kashmiri poetry into previously unexplored thematic realms.[5]

Mahjoor
Ghulam Ahmad Mahjoor on a 2013 stamp of India
Native name
محجور
Born(1887-08-11)11 August 1887
Mitrigam, Kashmir and Jammu
Died9 April 1952(1952-04-09) (aged 66)
Mitrigam, India Administered Jammu and Kashmir
Resting placeMitrigam (exhumed) then Athwajan, Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, Kashmir
OccupationRegional administrator, Poet
Notable worksPoshe-mati – Janano,[1] Bage Nishat Ke Gulo[1]

Early life


Mahjoor was born in the village of Mitrigam, Pulwama, 38 km from Srinagar and 5 km from Pulwama.[citation needed] He got his pen name Mahjoor when he visited Punjab and started writing poetry under the influence of great Urdu poet, Shibli Namani. He followed in the academic footsteps of his father, who was a scholar of Persian language.[6] He received the primary education from the Maktab of Aashiq Trali (a renowned poet) in Tral. After passing the middle school examination from Nusrat-ul-Islam School, Srinagar, he went to Punjab where he came in contact with Urdu poets like Bismil Amritsari and Moulana Shibi Nomani. He returned to Srinagar in 1908 and started writing in Persian and then in Urdu.[citation needed] Determined to write in his native language, Mahjoor used the simple diction of traditional folk storytellers in his writing.

Mahjoor worked as a patwari (regional administrator) in Kashmir. Along with his official duties, he spent his free time writing poetry, and his first Kashmiri poem 'Vanta hay vesy' was published in 1918.[citation needed]


Poetic legacy


Mahjoor is recognized by one commentator as a poet who revolutionized the traditional forms of nazm and ghazal.[7]

In 1972, a bilingual film named Shayar-e-Kashmir Mahjoor was released with the Hindi version starring Balraj Sahni. A square in Srinagar is named after him.[8] He is buried near the poet Habba Khatoon at a site near Athwajan on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway.[9]

A song featured in Coke Studio Explorer, "Ha Gulo" is written by Mahjoor and was sung by Kashmiri regional band Qasamir.[10]


Bibliography



References


  1. "Wordsworth of Kashmir". Merinews. Retrieved 25 March 2007.
  2. Poetry and renaissance: Kumaran Asan birth centenary volume. Sameeksha. 1974. Retrieved 25 March 2007. It is at this stage that the poet Mahjoor swam into the poetical firmament to redeem Kashmiri poetry from this plight. His contribution and that of other major poets of the modern era like Zinda Kaul, Abdul Ahad Azad, Dina Nath Nadim
  3. Kashmir panorama. Raj Publications. 1997. ISBN 9788186208076. Retrieved 25 March 2007. Famous writers of this era were: Pirzada Ghulam Ahmad 'Mahjoor' (Poet), Abdul Ahad Azad and Master Zinda Koul.
  4. A History of Indian Literature 1911–1956. Sahitya Akademi. 2005. ISBN 9788172017989. Retrieved 25 March 2007. The literary figures who dominated Kashmiri in this period are Zinda Kaul (1884–1965), the universally respected poet of the Bhakti tradition; AA. Azad (1903–68), Dinanath Nadim (1916–88) and of course Mahjoor (1885–1952), who broke the long monotony of mystic poets with a distinctly new personal voice and at the same time created a body of poetry of public protest.
  5. "Selections from Mahjoor's Kashmiri Poems". Kashmiri Overseas Association U.S.A. 2007. Retrieved 12 December 2007.
  6. "Kashmiri Language and Literature". Project ZAAN. 2007. Archived from the original on 27 December 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2007.
  7. Koul, Omkar N. (2000). "Kashmiri Language, Linguistics, and Culture" (PDF). Retrieved 24 December 2007.
  8. "Pantha Chowk is Now Mehjoor Chowk". Kashmir Observer. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
  9. Bhargava, Kavita (3 June 2000). "A grave mistake". Tribune India. Retrieved 20 June 2010.
  10. Scroll Staff. "'Ha Gulo': Coke Studio Explorer's new single features folk artists from Kashmir". Scroll.in. Retrieved 16 July 2018.


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