page_title: Ghalib
section_title: Ghalib's grave
hierarchical_section_title: Ghalib / Contemporaries and disciples / Ghalib's grave
caption_attribution_description: English: Side view of Mazar-e-Ghalib
context_page_description: Ghalib, born Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, was a prominent Urdu and Persian poet during the last years of the Mughal Empire. He used his pen-names of Ghalib and Asad. His honorific was Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula. During his lifetime, the already declining Mughal empire was eclipsed and displaced by the Colonial British Raj and finally deposed following the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857, are some of the events that he described through his work.
  Most notably, he wrote in both Urdu and Persian. His Persian Divan is at least five times longer than his Urdu but his fame rests on his poetry in Urdu.
  Today, Ghalib remains popular not only in India and Pakistan but also among the Hindustani diaspora around the world.
context_section_description: Ghalib was buried in Hazrat Nizamuddin near the tomb of Nizamuddin Auliya. The side view of Mazar-e-Ghalib is shown in the image.
caption: Side view of Mazar-e-Ghalib
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