lived well for 24 years. Later life in Hyderabad Deccan Dehlvi stayed in Hyderabad in 1888 for several months. He left Hyderabad after not being invited to the court by the Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI's court, as access to his court was very limited. He then was invited immediately and was appointed as the court poet and mentor, in 1891, to the Sixth Nizam Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, at the age of 60. Contrary to the impression one gets from his poetry, he did not drink wine and shunned it. His couplet on Urdu language was: Death He died in 1905 at the age of 74 in Hyderabad Deccan after a paralytic stroke. He was buried at Dargah Yousufain in Hyderabad. Disciples Dehlvi's students included Allama Iqbal, Hassan Raza Khan (1859-1908), Jigar Moradabadi (1890 – 1960), Seemab Akbarabadi and Ahasan Marharavi, though a widely quoted anecdote relates that when asked to designate his successor as the leading Urdu poet of his age, he replied Bekhudain [the two Bekhuds], referring to Bekhud Badayuni and Bekhud Dehlvi. Popular ghazal songs His selected ghazals are rendered by contemporary ghazal singers, Jagjit Singh, Noor Jahan, Iqbal Bano, Ghulam Ali, Adithya Srinivasan, Malika Pukhraj, Mehdi Hassan, Abida Parveen, Begum Akhtar, Pankaj Udhas and Farida Khanum. Bibliography His work consists of four volumes, consisting of 16,000 couplets and a masnavi. The last two volumes he wrote when he was in Hyderabad. Gulzar-e-Daagh (1878) Masnavi Fariyad-e-Daagh (1882) Aftab-e-Daagh (1885) Mahtab-e-Daagh (1893) Yaadgar-e-Daagh (posthumous, 1905) Diwan e Daagh Intikhab-e-Kalam Daagh (edited by Moinuddin Aqeel) References External links Indian male poets Urdu-language poets from India 19th-century Indian Muslims Poets from Delhi People from Rampur, Uttar Pradesh 1905 deaths 1831 births Writers from Hyderabad, India 19th-century Indian poets 19th-century Indian male writers