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The story of Shah Gulshan advising Wali Dakkani to incorporate Persian themes into his Rekhta (Urdu) poetry is, in fact, an invention of Delhi's literary biographers.
This article discusses the contributions of Fort William College, focusing specifically on the linguistic balance in Mir Amman's 'Bagh-o-Bahar' that bestowed simplicity and fluency upon Urdu prose.
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