Background
Noted Urdu poet, Mirza Ghalib was married to Umrao Begum, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Bakhsh Khan (younger brother of the first Nawab of Loharu, Ahmad Baksh Khan).
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He first lived in Lahore, attached to the court of the Governor, Moin-ul-Mulk, in the 1750s, thereafter he moved to Delhi, and joined the court of Delhi, in reign of Mughal Emperor, Shah Alam II (r 1728–1806). Soon he was given the title of Nawab, and given the region of and thereafter he built his home close to Red Fort, in Ballimaran, Delhi, in the lane that is still known as Gali Kasim January, and also built mosque nearby known as Qasim Khani Mosque. He had two brothers, Alam January and Arif January, whose son, Ahmad Baksh Khan, later founded the princely state of Loharu (now in Bhiwani district) in 1806.
The complex was later acquired by Bunyadi Begum, poet Mirza Ghalib"s sister-in-law, and housed the poet after he was released from debtors" prison.
Though according to other sources he came from Yarkand (present day Xijiazhuang Province in China) in 1811 he was awarded the title KHAN and Hateen Province near Gurgaon by the then King of Delhi Shah Alamgir.
