As a sub overseer he was posted at quetta supervising railway line in 1886, his first urdu magazine -shiraq was launched that shut down later, professor of arabic and persian he taught for thirty years in lucknow college, he used mirza as his pen name- his five novels remembered are--Umrao jaan ada, Akhtar beghum , Sharif zadah, Insha-e-raaz, Zaat sharif,
He recounts in his novel-umrao jaan ada a coutesan"s life story she shared with him,
retaliating umrao jaan wrote a novel--Fasan-e- rusva that could not dim her own name,
the novel is a mirror of a dancing girl
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