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| birth_place=[[Rajgomal]]<br />
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| death_place= [[Jalandhar]]<br />
| education=Phd. in Literature, [[Panjab University]]<br />
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'''Jagtar''' (23 March 1935 – 30 March 2010) was a [[Punjabi people|Punjabi]] poet.<ref>{{cite web|title=Punjabi poet Dr Jagtar passed away on 30 March|url=http://punjabnewsline.com/content/view/24648/143|publisher=Punjab Newsline|accessdate=2013-05-13|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100402065335/http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/24648/143/|archivedate=2 April 2010|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=George|first=K. M.|title=Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology: Plays and prose|year=1992|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|isbn=9788172013240|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1R2Pa3f7r0C&pg=PA963}}</ref> He was widely credited for being a stickler for meter and rhyme. He was very popular among the politically conscious Punjabi readers having left-wing leanings. In the early period of his popularity he was known by his pen name Jagtar “Papiha” which he later dropped.<br />
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==Life==<br />
Jagtar was born at [[Rajgomal]], [[Jallandhar district]], in [[Punjab Province, British India]]. In the early 1970s he attended [[Panjab University]] to do his masters in Punjabi literature and did his Ph.D. on the critical study of Punjabi poetry in Pakistan from 1947 to 1972. He served as a college lecturer for most of his life. He wrote 32 books.<ref>http://www.tribuneindia.com/2002/20020329/ldh2.htm</ref><br />
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==Works==<br />
* ''Ruttan-ranglian (1957)''<br />
* ''Talkhian ranginian (1960)''<br />
* ''Dudh pathiri (1961)''<br />
* ''Adhura manukh(1967)''<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/adhura-adami/oclc/31190405 | title=Adhura aadmi (1967) | work=worldcat.org | oclc=31190405 | accessdate=2016-09-16}}</ref><br />
* ''Lahu de naksh (1973)''<br />
* ''Chhangya rukh (1976)''<br />
* ''Sheeshe da jungle (1980)''<br />
* ''Janjriyan vich ghiriya Samundar (1985)''<br />
* ''Chunakri Sham (1990)''<br />
* ''Jugnu Deeva Te Dariya (1992)''<br />
* ''Akhan Waliya Paidan (1999)''<br />
* ''Prawesh Dwar (2003)''<br />
* ''Mom de Lok'' (2006)<br />
* ''Pashāwara toṃ Sindha taka : safaranāmā''<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/pashawara-tom-sindha-taka-safaranama/oclc/612969040 | title=Pashāwara toṃ Sindha taka : safaranāmā | publisher=Lokgeet Parkashan | author=Jagtar | year=2010 | isbn=9789350170328| oclc=612969040 }}</ref><br />
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[[Category:Punjabi-language writers]]<br />
[[Category:Poets from Punjab, India]]<br />
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[[Category:20th-century Indian poets]]<br />
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