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Mir Amman (1748–1806) was an employee of
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at
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, variously also known as ''Mir Amman of Delhi'', ''Mir Amman of Dilhi'', ''Mir Amman Dihlavi'', and ''Meer Ummun''. He was best known for his translation of
Amir Khusro Abu'l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau (1253–1325 AD), better known as Amīr Khusrau was an Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar who lived under the Delhi Sultanate. He is an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian s ...
's classic epic ''Qissa Chahar Dervish'' (''
The Tale of the Four Dervishes ''The Tale of the Four Dervishes'' ( fa, قصه چهار درویش ''Qissa-ye Chahār Darvēsh''), known as ''Bāgh o Bahār'' (, "Garden and Spring") in Urdu, is a collection of allegorical stories by Amir Khusro written in Persian in the earl ...
'') His translation is considered classic literature itself for its use of contemporary Urdu, and was done on the request of Mr.
John Borthwick Gilchrist John Borthwick Gilchrist (19 June 1759 – 9 January 1841) was a Scottish surgeon, linguist, philologist and Indologist. Born and educated in Edinburgh, he spent most of his early career in India, where he made a study of the local languages. ...
, a famous English scholar of literature of those days. It in turn was widely translated into English during the 19th century.


Partial publishing history

* ''Bagh o Buhar, a Translation into the Hindoostanee Tongue of the Celebrated Persian Tale "Qissui Chuhar Durwesh," by Meer Ummun, under the superintendence of J. Gilchrist'', Calcutta, 1804. This version was reissued as follows: 2nd edition, Calcutta 1813; 3rd edition, Calcutta 1824. Other editions: Cawnpore 1833; Calcutta 1834; Madras 1840; Calcutta 1847; Cawnpore 1860; Calcutta 1863; Delhi 1882; etc. * ''Bāgh o Buhār; consisting of entertaining Tales in the Hindûstǎni Language. By Mir Amman of Dihli, one of the learned Natives formerly attached to the College of Fort Williams at Calcutta. A new Edition, carefully collated with original Manuscripts. . . . to which is added a Vocabulary of all the Words occurring in the Work'', Duncan Forbes, London, 1846. Also reissued in multiple later editions and revisions. * ''The Bagh-o-Behar, Translated into English, for the Use of Students'', W. C. Hollings, W. Thacker & Co., St. Andrews Library, Calcutta, and London, 1851. * ''The Bāgh o Bahār, or the Garden and the Spring; being the Adventures of King Āzād Bakht, and the Four Derweshes; literally translated from the Urdú of Mir Amman, of Delhi. With copious explanatory Notes, and an introductory Preface'', Edward B. Eastwick, London : Sampson Low & Marston, 1852. * ''The Hindústáni Text of Mír Amman, Edited in Roman Type, with Notes and an introductory Chapter on the Use of the Roman Character in Oriental Languages'', M. Williams, London, 1859.


References

* George Abraham Grierson, ''A Bibliography of Western Hindi, Including Hindostani'', Bombay Education Society Press, 1903. Page 32.


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