Nafees Fateh Puri's contribution to the tradition of Urdu eulogy in Bahawalpur after partition
Keywords:
Nafees Fatehpuri, Agha Sikandar Mehdi, Masood Hasan Shahab, Habib Mohammad Habib, Gulzar Nadim Sabri, Bahawalpur, Urdu Martia, Hali, Syed Abid Ali Abid, Waheed ul Hasan Hashmi.DOI:
1103/2707Abstract
This article contains the definition of elegy, the history of elegy in Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages and the
tradition of elegy writing in Bahawalpur. Among the elegiac writers in Bahawalpur, Agha Sikandar Mehdi was the
first to maintain the tradition of elegies, then Gulzar Nadim Sabri, Habib Mohammad Habib, Masood Hasan
Shahab carried forward the elegiac tradition. Nafees Fatehpuri added more colors to the Urdu elegy. Where the
poets of Bahawalpur brought the elegies to the peak, they also have their place in modern elegies. Elegy in simple
language and incorporating all elements of elegies into their elegies gives them a unique position in the elegiac
genre
