Apurbo Krishna Kunvar

Apurbo Krishna Kunvar

19th-century Bengali Urdu and Persian poet from the Sovabazar royal family

📍 Kolkata, West Bengal India

Public Career & Background Dossier

Apurbo Krishna Deb Bahadur "Kunvar" was a poet and writer in Urdu and Persian from Bengal. He belonged to the royal Sovabazar Raj. His name is mentioned in Tazkira Nuskha-e-Dilkashā by Janamejaya Mitra Arman, and in Tazkira-i-Shu'ara-yi-Urdu by Garcin de Tassy. Apurbo Krishna was the author of a full Dīvān, and his most distinguished literary work was a multi-volume Shahnamah dedicated to the Muslim monarchs of India. According to Harit Krishna Deb, around 1848, he presented a four-volume manuscript of this Shahnamah to the American Oriental Society, and became the first Indian to be made an h

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