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Tradition of Poetic letter writing in Urdu

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The tradition of poetic letters in the subcontinent begins with the Persian letters of Abdul Haq Mohaddess Dehlavi (1551-1642). In this regard, the names of Nazir Akbarabadi, Insha Allah Khan Insha, Mirza Ghalib, Shibli Noumani and Habib-ur-Rehman Khan Sherwani are worth mentioning. Urdu letter writing started in the subcontinent in 1803, while the trend of poetic letters were originated in 1761 in Hyderabad Deccan. The series of correspondence started in the latter half of the eighteenth century and continued till the twenty-first century. Some of these letters are specifically poetic, while others are written as regular letters. Under the light of these evidences, it can be said that although the tradition of poetic letters has not progressed eminently, there are many possibilities that it could. These possibilities can be gauged from the letters of Sher Muhammad Khan Iman (Deid: 1806), Saadat Yar Khan Rangeen (1757-1835), Nawab Shafta, Mirza Ghalib, Nawab Alauddin Khan Alai, Hakeem Sultan Rampuri, Akbar Alahabadi, Shibli Noumani, Allama Iqbal, Hakeem Ahmad Shujaa, Qamar-ul-Huda Firdousi and Raza Naqvi Wahi. Among them, the poems of Ghalib, Alai, Akbar and Shibli are particularly written in the form of letters. If the researchers dig deeper into this tradition, tremendous results can be concluded and thus a new dimension is more likely to be appeared in the history of Urdu literature.

Dr. Khalid Nadeem. (2020) اردو میں منظوم مکتوب نگاری کی ورایت, DARYAFT, Volume 23, Issue 23.
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