Query about Shahr Ashob Literature in India in general and Bengal in particular

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Dear List Members,

 

I request you to be so kind as to give some tips for a research

project I have in mind.

 

I was reading about the development of Bengali lietrature, and it

occurred to me that the famous work "Bishad-Sindhu" by Mir Mosharraf

Hussein which deals with the sufferings of Muslim people in Bengal,

may be related to similar works in Urdu/Hindustani or Persian. I

have heard of a genre of poetry in which the "lament of a

cityshahr ashob" is the dominant theme.

 

I hope to find samples of "shahr ashob" poetry in Urdu/Persian, and

then compare it with the work of Mir Mosharraf Hussein (who, if I

understand correctly was the first Muslim writer of Bengali to make

an impact on then predominantly Hindu readership of Bengali.

 

Since I know next to nothing about this matter, I will be grateful

for even the most elementary suggestions about studying this genre

of poetry.

 

Thank you in advance,

 

Dileep

dskaranth