Nasikh

The book describes Nasikh as of Calcutta, belonging to the latter half of the nineteenth century, a Deputy Magistrate and Member of the Legislative Council of Bengal. This is the identification the book gives; it is not assumed here to be the earlier Lucknow poet of the same name, and no dates are given.

The 2 pieces given here are drawn from Hindustani Lyrics (London: The Sufi Publishing Society, 1919), in the English verse of Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook. They are free renderings, not literal translations, and the original Urdu poems are untitled; each is named here by its first line.