ABSTRACT
F rom amongst the masters of Indo-Persian style in Persian literature and poetry in the Deccan during this period, only Ẓuhūrī has so far attracted the attention of later poets and critics whose prose-writings and Sāqī Nāma are widely read and admired in India even today. But due to the indifference of critics and general readers several literary masterpieces written during this period, have been cast in the limbo of oblivion. An attempt is made in the following pages to give brief notices of a few of these poets, along with a short critical appreciation of their poetical works, which in almost all cases exist in manuscript form. Our observations are generally based on the sketchy notices of these poets in various tazkiras of this and subsequent periods; as also on the information culled from a study of the poetical works themselves.
