The Emperor also added to it the additional title of "Najm-ud-daula".
In 1850, Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar bestowed upon Mirza Ghalib the title of "Dabir-ul-Mulk". I am in a desert and my house blooms as its spring Greenery is growing from walls and doors Ghalib One of his couplets puts it in a nutshell: The idea that life is one continuous painful struggle which can end only when life itself ends, is a recurring theme in his poetry.
In one of his letters he describes his marriage as the second imprisonment after the initial confinement that was life itself. None of his seven children survived beyond infancy. He soon moved to Delhi, along with his younger brother, Mirza Yousuf, who had developed schizophrenia at a young age and later died in Delhi during the chaos of 1857. Īt the age of thirteen, Ghalib married Umrao Begum, daughter of Nawab Ilahi Bakhsh (brother of the Nawab of Ferozepur Jhirka). He was then raised by his Uncle Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan, but in 1806, Nasrullah fell off an elephant and died from related injuries. Back then, Ghalib was a little over 5 years of age. He died in a battle in 1803 in Alwar and was buried at Rajgarh (Alwar, Rajasthan).
He was employed first by the Nawab of Lucknow and then the Nizam of Hyderabad, Deccan. Mirza Abdullah Baig (Ghalib's father) married Izzat-ut-Nisa Begum, an ethnic Kashmiri, and then lived at the house of his father-in-law. Mirza Abdullah Baig and Mirza Nasrullah Baig were two of his sons. He worked in Lahore, Delhi and Jaipur, was awarded the sub-district of Pahasu ( Bulandshahr, UP) and finally settled in Agra, UP, India. His paternal grandfather, Mirza Qoqan Baig, was a Seljuq Turk who had immigrated to India from Samarkand during the reign of Ahmad Shah (1748–54). Mirza Ghalib was born in Kala Mahal, Agra into a family of Mughals who moved to Samarkand (in modern-day Uzbekistan) after the downfall of the Seljuk kings.