Deputy Nazeer Ahmad Dehlvi was born in 1830 near the town of Bijnore in Uttar Pradesh, India. He was a leading Urdu writer, social and religious reformer, and distinguished scholar. He was acclaimed as a pioneer of Urdu literature and his novels have been adopted in t...

Deputy Nazeer Ahmad Dehlvi was born in 1830 near the town of Bijnore in Uttar Pradesh, India. He was a leading Urdu writer, social and religious reformer, and distinguished scholar. He was acclaimed as a pioneer of Urdu literature and his novels have been adopted in the educational curriculum of India and Pakistan. Nazir Ahmad studied at the Delhi College from 1846 till 1853. His first Urdu novel Mirat-ul-Uroos (Arabic For: The Bride's Mirror, 1868) won him great fame. In the twenty years since 1869 it was reprinted in editions totaling over 100,000 copies; and translated into Bengali, Braj, Kashmiri, Punjabi, and Gujarati. In 1903, an English translation was published in London by G. E. Ward. His second novel Bina-tul-Nash (The Daughters of the Bier) was based on women’s education and Taubat-un-Nasuh (Sincere Repentance) highlighted moral values in younger generations. His other popular writing work includes Fasaana-e-Mubtalaa(1885), Ibn'ul Waqt- 1888, Ayyamah, Ruya-e Sadiqah (1892), Qisay Kahaniyan (Tales and Stories), Zalim Bhariya (Cruel Wolf).