• Bodhan Sarkar

The 18th century experienced the emergence of a lot of warfare. Needless to say, the limited war of 18th century was replaced by the people's war in the mid-19th century (1). Though this people's war does not mean the Maoist War at present time. In respect of India, it was an epoch-making war by the Indian Sepoys of British Army which is known in the history as the Revolt of 1857. It also marked the end of a historical period. The year 1857 witnessed a lot of events as well as the highly praiseworthy cultural enlightenment in the field of literature and obviously in the hand of Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, a Delhi based Urdu poet and a noble man of his time. Such a documental literary worth was Dastunbuy (A Posy of Flowers), a diary the events of which he had written during the dark days that Delhi had been facing for four months. Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, a man in the eternal sense, a man in his eternal quest for life, for knowledge and for love, was born on 27th December 1797 in Agra (2). After his marriage in 1810 with Umrao Begum he made his future in Delhi. Though for some personal reasons he spent in Agra. His ancestors were Turkish and had come from Transoxiana. His grandfather migrated to India and settled down in Agra during Mughal period. He started writing verse in 1807-08 in Persian. He witnessed the whole period of revolt for 4 month and experienced the dark days of Delhi perpetrated by both the Indian sepoys of British Army and British soldiers. Those days made him so depressed, disgusted and embarrassed that he kept the details of the atrocities and events in writing in a diary called the Dastunbuy or 'nosegay'.

Dastunbuy: A critical Document of Dark Days during the Indian Revolt of 1857.

"Dastunbuy: A critical Document of Dark Days during the Indian Revolt of 1857.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no.117-120, May-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805A20.pdf

"Dastunbuy: A critical Document of Dark Days during the Indian Revolt of 1857.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 5, page no. pp117-120, May-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1805A20.pdf