![]() Back then, Ghalib was a little over 5 years of age. He died in a battle in 1803 in Alwar and was buried at Rajgarh (Alwar, Rajasthan). He was employed first by the Nawab of Lucknow and then the Nizam of Hyderabad, Deccan. Mirza Abdullah Baig (Ghalib's father) married Izzat-ut-Nisa Begum, an ethnic Kashmiri, and then lived at the house of his father-in-law. Mirza Abdullah Baig and Mirza Nasrullah Baig were two of his sons. He worked in Lahore, Delhi and Jaipur, was awarded the sub-district of Pahasu ( Bulandshahr, UP) and finally settled in Agra, UP, India. His paternal grandfather, Mirza Qoqan Baig, was a Seljuq Turk who had immigrated to India from Samarkand during the reign of Ahmad Shah (1748–54). ![]() Mirza Ghalib was born in Kala Mahal, Agra into a family of Mughals who moved to Samarkand (in modern-day Uzbekistan) after the downfall of the Seljuk kings. ![]() The statue of Mirza Ghalib in Ghalib's Mansion.
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