Imam Bakhsh Nasikh

Shaikh Imam Bakhsh Nasikh was an important poet of the Lucknow school and a skilled craftsman of language. His education in Arabic and Persian refined his poetic taste. He paid particular attention to words, sentence structure and the arrangement of a verse.

His pupils and his ideas about language had a lasting influence on Urdu poetry. Nasikh’s work is a distinguished example of the technical subtleties and careful craftsmanship of the classical ghazal.