Shamshad

Shamshad appears in the contents of Hindustani Lyrics but the book gives no biographical note and no dates for him; nothing further is claimed here.

The one piece given here is drawn from Hindustani Lyrics (London: The Sufi Publishing Society, 1919), in the English verse of Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook. It is a free rendering, not a literal translation, and the original Urdu poem is untitled; it is named here by its first line.