Kalidas Gupta Riza (1925–2001) was an Indian writer and authority on the writings of the Urdu poet

Mirza Ghalib Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (27 December 179715 February 1869), commonly known as Mirza Ghalib, was an Indian poet. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets in the Urdu language, he also produced a significant body of work in Persian. Ghali ...

. He authored several books on Ghalib. A recipient of the Ghalib Award in 1987, he was honored by the

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in 2001 with the fourth-highest Indian civilian award of

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. Riza's edition of Ghalib's ''Diwan'' ''Diwan-e-'Raza'', published in 1995, supplanted Imtiaz Ali 'Arshi''s 1958 version as the most comprehensive and chronologically correct edition of Ghalib's Urdu poetry.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Riza, Kalidas Gupta 20th-century Indian biographers 1925 births 2001 deaths Urdu-language writers from India

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