Mir Tahir Muhammad Ibn Hassan Sabzavari Tattavi was a Sindhi

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poet and historian during the rule of the

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, who composed poetry under the pen-name ''Nisyani''. His family emigrated to Thatta, Sindh from

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. His original ancestral surname was ''Sabzavari''. His father was a

Sawar Sowar ( ur, سوار, also ''siwar'' meaning "the one who rides" or "rider", from Persian ) was originally a rank during the Mughal Empire and Maratha Empire. Later during the British Raj it was the name in Anglo-Indian usage for a horse-soldi ...

and the Mughal governor of Eastern Sindh and later Gujarat during the reign of

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. Including his talents as a poet, Tahir was also a historian he wrote the Garden of the Immaculate (''Rawzat al-tahirin'') completed (1014.AH/1606.AD) a large 36 chapter history of

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and the

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), under the patronage of Mirza Ghazi Beg (r.1599-1609.AD/1008-1018.AH).

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