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List Of Punjabi Language Poets
Poets of Punjabi language (Shahmukhi alphabet, Shahmukhi: , Gurmukhi: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਦੇ ਕਵੀ). Poets * Baba Farid - (1173–1266) * Damodar Gulati - 15th century * Guru Nanak - (1469 - 1539) * Guru Angad - 16th century * Guru Amar Das - 15th - 16th century * Guru Ram Das - 16th century * Shah Hussain - 16th century * Guru Arjun - 16th - 17th century * Sultan Bahu (1628–1691) * Bulleh Shah (1680–1757) * Guru Tegh Bahadur - 17th century * Guru Gobind Singh - 17th century * Ali Haidar (poet), Ali Haidar - 17th-18th century * Waris Shah - (1722–1798) * Hashim Shah - (1735–1843) * Shah Mohammad - (1780–1862) * Ratan Singh Bhangu 18th-19th century * Lutf Ali - 18th century * Ghulam Rasool Alampuri - 19th century * Piro Preman - 19th century * Babu Rajab Ali - 19th-20th century * Mian Muhammad Bakhsh - 19th-20th century * Qadaryar - 19th century * Khwaja Ghulam Farid - 19th-20th century * Ali Arshad Mir - 20th century * Puran Singh - 20th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjabi Language
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most widely spoken native languages in the world, with approximately 150 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 88.9 million native speakers according to the 2023 Pakistani census, and the 11th most widely-spoken in India, with 31.1 million native speakers, according to the 2011 Census of India, 2011 census. It is spoken among a Punjabi diaspora, significant overseas diaspora, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Gulf states. In Pakistan, Punjabi is written using the Shahmukhi alphabet, based on the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script; in India, it is written using the Gurmukhi, Gurmukhi alphabet, based on the Brahmic scripts, Indic scripts. Punjabi is unusual among the Indo-Aryan languages and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hashim Shah
Hashim Shah ( Punjabi , ਹਾਸ਼ਿਮ ਸ਼ਾਹ ; b. 1735 d. 1843) was a Punjabi writer and Sufi poet, best known for his story '' Sassi Punnun'' (or ''Sassi Panhu''). His family migrated from Holy city Madina to Punjab, India, where they began living at Jagdev Kalan, the biggest village in Ajnala tehsil, Amritsar district. Hashim Shah was born in Jagdev Kalan in 1735 or 1752 and lived in that village his entire life. He wrote three stories "Kissa Kaw" named ''Sassi Punnu'', '' Sohni Mahiwal'', and ''Shirin Farhad''. Hashim, besides following the family tradition of hikmat (physician), copunselling and Piri-Muridi, also worked as a carpenter for sustenance. He left the profession of carpentry when Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his courtiers extended their patronage to Hashim. Thereafter, he devoted his entire life to spiritual attainments and composing Sufistic (mystic) poetry. Hashim Shah's poetry is unique in its own right. Credited as one of the best poets of his era m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasif Ali Wasif
Malik Muhammad Wasif (15 January 1929 – 18 January 1993), best known through his pen-name Wasif Ali Wasif, was a Pakistani teacher, writer, poet and Sufi figure. The author of some 40 books, he is known for his aphorisms and short prose pieces and essays, often taken from his columns in Urdu newspapers, many of these books being collections of his speeches and public lectures, while he has also written poetry. He was close to some of Pakistan's best-known intellectuals of his era such as Qudratullah Shahab, Ashfaq Ahmed and Hanif Ramay. Early life and education Wasif was born to Malik Muhammed Arif into a family of the Punjabi Awan clan on 15 January 1929 in Khushab, Punjab. After getting his early religious education from his father, he matriculated from Government High School Khushab in 1944 before moving to Jhang, where his maternal grandfather was the headmaster of a Government High School, later graduating from Government Degree College Jhang. Moving to Lahore, he ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohan Singh (poet)
Mohan Singh (1905–1978) was a noted Indian poet in the Punjabi language and an academic, and one of the early pioneers of modern Punjabi poetry. Biography Born in 1905 at Lyallpur (now in Pakistan), Mohan Singh spent the early years of his life at his ancestral village Dhamial in Rawalpindi District. His poem Kuri Pathohar Di is reminiscent of his romantic early days. He obtained a master's degree in Persian and started his career as a Lecturer in Persian, Urdu and Punjabi at Khalsa College, Amritsar in 1933. He was well read in English, Persian and Urdu literatures. At Amritsar, Teja Singh, Sant Singh Sekhon, Gurbachan Singh 'Talib' became his friends. In 1940, he joined as a lecturer in the Sikh National College, Lahore, but after some time he left the job and started a firm, Hind Publishers to promote the literary standards of Punjabi publications. In 1939, he started his famous literary Punjabi monthly, Panj darya. After Partition In 1947 he shifted his business to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puran Singh
Professor Puran Singh (; 17 February 1881 – 31 March 1931) was a Punjabi poet, scientist and mystic. Born in Abbottabad, now in Pakistan, in a Sikh family, he is one of the founders of modern Punjabi poetry. He passed his matriculation examination at the Mission High School Rawalpindi in 1897 and, after obtaining a scholarship for the years 1900 to 1903, obtained a degree in Industrial Chemistry from Tokyo University in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Though a born Sikh he became a Buddhist Bhikshu and a sanyasi under influence of Ukakura a Japanese Buddhist monk and Swami Ramtirath respectively before he finally got settled as a Sikh mystic when he came under influence of Bhai Vir Singh during a Sikh Educational Conference meeting at Sialkot in 1912. Early life Singh was born in a Sikh Ahluwalia family at Abbottabad, Punjab, British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Arshad Mir
Ali Arshad Mir (; 1 January 1951 – 16 October 2008) was a Pakistani epic poet and writer of the Punjabi language, often described as the "Homer of Punjab". His works have been translated into languages such as Urdu and English. In the 1970s, his ''International Anthem'' brought him recognition. His lines like "''Girti huyi deewaro'n ko aik dhaka aur do''" (; ''Give the falling walls one more push'') are a popular slogan in Pakistan and around the world. His work includes dozens of poems that depict the socio-economic condition of society's oppressed people. Personal life Ali Arshad was born in a Muslim family in a Chishtian district, 250 km away from Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. He completed his M.A. in Punjabi language, and was appointed as an Associate Professor in Government M.A.O College Lahore. Later, he joined Government Degree College Depalpur, Okara as its Principal. He also worked with Mazdoor Kissan Party. He was a dervish, down to earth and straightforward man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khwaja Ghulam Farid
Khawaja Ghulam Farid (also romanized as Fareed; /1845 – 24 July 1901) was a 19th-century Sufi poet and mystic from Bahawalpur, Punjab, British India belonging to the Chishti Order. Most of his work is in his mother tongue ''Multani'', or what is now known as Saraiki. However, he also contributed to the Punjabi, Urdu, Pashto, Sindhi, Hindi and Persian literature. His writing style is characterized by the integration of themes such as death, passionate worldly and spiritual love, and the grief associated with love. Life He was born into a branch of the Koreja family who claimed descent from Umar (), the second Rashidun caliph through an early migrant to Sindh. The family was established as saints associated with the Suhrawardī Sufi order. Originally from Thatta, Sindh, the family seat later moved to Mithankot in the early 18th century on the invitation of a disciple and subsequently transferred their allegiance to the Chishtī order. Khawaja Farid was born /1845 at Chachr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qadaryar
Qadir Yar (1802–1892), born Qadar Baksh, was a Muslim Sandhu Jat and a poet of the Punjabi language. Born in Gujranwala, he wrote Punjabi Qissa like ''Qissa Purana Bhagat'', ''Raja Rasal''. Life Qadir Yar was born in the village Machhike, in Gujranwala District in Punjab (now in Pakistan) during the rule of the Sikh Empire. He belonged to an agriculturalist family and was Sandhu by caste. The details of his life are not available, except that he received his education at the village mosque. He was the court poet of the Lahore Sikh Darbar, during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Works Qadir Yar started his literary career with ''Mehraj Nama'' (1832), the longest poem composed by him and containing 1014 couplets. The poem gives a fictional account of Prophet Muhammad's journey through the seven skies. It tells the story of Puran Bhagat. His other significant works include ''Qissa Sohni Mahinwal'', ''Hari Singh Nalwa Di Var'', and ''Var Rani Kokilan''. Further reading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
Mīān Muhammad Bakhsh (, ; – 22 January 1907) was a Punjabi Muslim poet from Khari Sharif, in present-day Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He wrote 18 books during his lifetime of 77 years, especially remembered for his romantic epic poem, "'' Saiful Maluk''" in which he wrote the traditional Arabic story of Prince Saiful Maluk into a poem. He also wrote the romantic tragedy, "''Mirza Sahiban''". Most of his work is in Punjabi, with the exception of the book "''Yari''", written in Persian. Bakhsh is revered throughout the Punjab, Hazara and Azad Kashmir. He is regarded as the bridge between medieval and early-modern Punjabi literature. Early life Bakhsh was born in in Khari Sharif (present-day Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan) during the Sikh rule, into a Punjabi Gujjar family of the Paswal clan with roots in Gujrat, Punjab (present-day Punjab, Pakistan). There is considerable disagreement about his year of birth. Mahbūb 'Alī Faqīr Qādirī, in a biography printed as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Babu Rajab Ali
Babu Rajab Ali (; also known as Babu Ji) was a noted kavishar singer of Punjab, known as the King of '' Kavishari''. Kavishar and kavishari Kavishari, or Kavishri, was originated in the Malwa region of Punjab. In the region a "Chhand-Baddh" kavita (poetry) is sung faster in a loud yet stretched voice without any musical instruments known as ''kavishari''. Biography Babu Rajab Ali was born as ''Rajab Ali Khan'' on 10 August 1894 in a Muslim Rajput family to father ''Mian Dhamaali Khan'' and mother ''Jiooni'' in the village of Sahoke of Firozpur district (now Moga district) in Punjab Province (British India). He had four sisters and one younger brother. His uncle Haji Ratan was a talented Kavishar as well. He had his primary schooling from a neighbouring village of Banbiha, then high schooling in Moga and passed matriculation in 1912 from Barjindra High School, Faridkot. He was a good athlete and football player. He was the captain of the cricket team of his school. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piro Preman
Piro Preman (1832–1872 or 1875) was the first female Punjabi poet, and an ex-Muslim follower of the Gulabdasia sect. She was formerly a Dalit Mirasi Muslim prostitute named Ayesha. Biography Little is known about Piro's life. She apparently had Dalit origins. Her mother is said to have died early after she was born and she accompanied her ''fakir'' father to various places of pilgrimage. During one of these trips, she is believed to have been taken by a Lahori man who sold her into prostitution in a brothel. She is believed to have been sold into prostitution at Heera Mandi, the red-light district of Lahore. She escaped Heera Mandi and went on to become a devotee of Gulab Das at the Gulabdasi Dera in Chathian Wala (in present-day Pakistan). Das was a Sikh Jat who founded the Gulabdasi sect. The sect was based on Hindu–Sikh asceticism, but considered themselves to be neither Hindu nor Sikh. Most of the information about Piro comes from her own autobiographical verses, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghulam Rasool Alampuri
Ghulam Rasool Alampuri (29 January 1849 – 7 March 1892) was a 19th-century Punjabi Muslim Sufi poet and author. Biography Ghulam Rasool was born on 29 January 1849 into a Gujar family from the village of Alampur in Hoshiarpur District. He was only six months old when his mother died and was only 12 years old when his father died. He received primary education from Maulvi Hamid Sahib of his village. He worked as a school teacher in Meerpur (a village in present-day Haryana), from 1864 to 1878. His formal teaching profession ended in 1882 at his resignation from his last school in Mahesar. He died young at an age of 43 on 7 March 1892. Unlike many other Punjabi poets, Ghulam Rasool was not affiliated with any Sufi order. Works Several minor works of Ghulam Rasool were collected as ''Satt phull'' (“Seven flowers”). However, his fame rests chiefly on his two major works. First is ''Dāstān-i Amīr Ḥamza'', a lengthy epic based on the life of Hamza, the uncle of prophet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
