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Khwāja Ḥaidar ʿAlī Ātish — Person · 1764 (per Wikipedia infobox) – 1846; his own principal Anglophone source, Saksena 1927, prints 1846 in its margin gloss on p.111 and then 1823 in its body text on p.112 — see erasure · Rekhta Poetry
Khwāja Ḥaidar ʿAlī, who took the pen name Ātish ("Fire"), was a Lucknow ghazal poet whom Ram Babu Saksena's 1927 history ranks "foremost amongst Urdu writers of ghazals after Mir and Ghalib."
Insha Allah Khan Insha — Person · d. 1233 AH / 1817 CE · Rekhta Poetry
Insha Allah Khan Insha, a Delhi Syed born at the Bengal Nawab's Murshidabad, became a poet at Shah Alam II's Delhi and then at the Lucknow court of Nawab Saadat Ali Khan, where he co-wrote the Darya-i-Latafat — "the first grammar of the Urdu language written by a native of the country" (Saksena, p. 87) — before a quarrel with his patron left him, in the same book's words, to "end his days in ignominy, regret and starvation" (p. 84).
Mir Muhammad Taqi "Mir" — Person · b. February 1723, Agra – d. 1225 AH / 1810 AD, Lucknow (Saksena: "there is a conflict of statements as regards the age of Mir") · Rekhta Poetry
A Delhi poet who reached Lucknow in 1782, answered a mushaira's laughter at his old-fashioned Delhi dress with an improvised ghazal that won the room over, and whose one autobiography — seen once in the Nawabs' library in 1848–50 — was already gone by the time Saksena wrote of him in 1927.