page_title: Ghalib ki Haveli
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Ghalib ki Haveli / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan was the famous urdu and Persian poet of the Indian History
context_page_description: Ghalib ki Haveli was the residence of the 19th century Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib and is now a heritage site located in the Gali Qasim Jan, Ballimaran, Old Delhi and reflects the period when the Mughal era was on the decline in India.
  The house was given to him by Hakim, a physician who is believed was an enthusiast of his poetry. After the poet's death in 1869, Hakim used to sit there every evening, not allowing anyone enter the building.
context_section_description: Ghalib lived in this Haveli for a long period of his life after he came from Agra. While staying at this Haveli, he wrote his Urdu and Persian ‘diwans’. Many a year after Ghalib's death the place housed shops inside it until the year of 1999 after which the govt. acquired a portion of it and renovated it. It was given a special touch with the use of Mughal Lakhori bricks, sandstone & a wooden entrance gate to recreate the 19th century period.
caption: The statue of mirza Ghalib in Ghalib ki Haveli.
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