Nassakh
Khan Bahadur Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdul Ghafūr (11 February 1834 - 14 June 1889), better known by his pen name Nassakh (), was a British Indian officer, writer, literary critic and collector. He is best known for his magnum opus Sukhan-e-Shuara ( Speech of Poets) which was a biography of prominent Urdu and Persian poets. He organised mushaira in places where he worked; inspiring young Urdu poets in Bengal. Early life Abdul Ghafur was born on 11 February 1834 to the Qadi family of Rajapur in Faridpur district. His father, Qazi Faqir Muhammad, was a lawyer at the Calcutta civil court and a Persian author best known for his Jāmiʿ al-tawārīkh ( Compendium of Chronicles), a history book published in 1836. Reformer Nawab Abdul Latif was his elder brother and Nassakh's two other brothers were Abdul Hamid and Abdul Bari Sayd who were also poets. This family was founded by Kazi Abdur Rasool, son of Shah Azimuddin, who was said to have been descended from the Arab Muslim general Khalid ibn al-Walid and have been appointed as Kazi in Mughal Bengal. Career Abdul Ghafur joined as deputy magistrate in the British Indian government. He served as deputy collector in many places