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Zara si baat... Insha ke naam...

Insha Saab ka asal naam Sayyid Insha Allah Khan 'Insha' hai.

He was an Urdu poet in the courts of Lucknow and Delhi in the late eighteenth and early 
nineteenth century. A multi-talented polyglot, he was the author of the first grammar 
of the Urdu language, Darya-e-Latafat.

Apart from being an virtuoso poet, Insha was a linguist, who knew many Indian dialects 
intimately. He is known for two remarkable works which display aspects of this talent: 
Rani Ketki Ki Kahani, a short romance which is one of the earliest prose works in Hindi 
(no Arabic or Persian words are used), and Darya-e-latafat (1807), a work in Persian 
on the grammar and rhetoric of the Urdu language, which also presented a linguistic 
study of the dialects of Delhi and Lucknow. This pioneering work established grammatical 
terminology used to this day.

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