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{{Infobox book<br />
| name = Nuskha-e-Hamidiya<br />
| title_orig = نسخۂ حمیدیہ<br />
| image = Nuskaha-e-Hamidiyya.jpg<br />
| caption = <br />
| author = [[Ghalib]]<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = [[Urdu]]<br />
| genre = [[Ghazal]] (poetry)<br />
| published = Manuscript completed 1821 CE (1237 AH)<br />
| pub_date = 1921<br />
| publisher = Hamidiya Library, [[Bhopal]]<br />
| media_type = [[Manuscript]]<br />
| pages = 1,900{{endash}}2,152 verses (130 pages approx.){{efn|''[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn newspaper]]'' has mentioned 1,900 verses, while ''[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]'' write 2,152 verses}}<br />
| isbn = 978-1518865756<br />
| oclc = 957584202<br />
| preceded_by = Early versions of Ghalib's ''dīwān''<br />
| followed_by = Mutadāvil Dīvān (printed editions)<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Nuskha-e-Hamidiya'''''{{efn|also spelled as '''Nuskha-e-Hamidiyya''' (Urdu: نسخۂ حمیدیہ)}} is an early nineteenth-century [[manuscript]] of the [[diwan (poetry)|diwan]] (collected poetry) of [[Ghalib]], one of the greatest [[Urdu poetry|Urdu poet]]s and letter writer. The manuscript was copied in 1821 CE (1237 AH) and later housed in the Hamidiya Library, [[Bhopal]], from which it derives its name. It is one of the earliest evidences to Ghalib's poetry and documents a larger collection of verses than the [[printing|standard printed edition]]s of his dīwān. It has been a central source for understanding the [[evolution]] of his corpus.<br />
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== Background ==<br />
Ghalib compiled multiple versions of his dīwān during [[Life of Ghalib|his lifetime]].<ref name="n565">{{cite web | last=Farooqi | first=Mehr Afshan | title=COLUMN: The Nuskha-e-Hamidiyya: the divaan of Ghalib's youth | website=DAWN.COM | date=2014-10-09 | url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1136840 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221164423/https://www.dawn.com/news/1136840 | archive-date=2019-12-21 | url-status=live | access-date=2025-08-27}}</ref> The best-known and widely circulated edition is the ''mutadāvil dīvān'', which was first printed in the mid-nineteenth century and contained a comparatively smaller selection of verses.<ref name="g130">{{cite web | title=Nuskha-e-Hamidiya : Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib | website=Internet Archive | date=2016-10-23 | url=https://archive.org/details/nuskhaihamidiya/page/n1/mode/1up | access-date=2025-08-27}}</ref> By contrast, the ''Nuskha-e-Hamidiya'' preserves a significantly larger body of work, including [[poem]]s that Ghalib later excluded from the printed compilations.<ref name="n565"/><br />
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The manuscript is thought to have been prepared by a professional [[calligrapher]] Hafiz Mueenuddin in 1821. An ownership seal belonging to [[Faujdar]] Muhammad Khan indicates that it was acquired by him in 1832. In the early twentieth century, the manuscript was rediscovered in the Hamidiya Library, Bhopal, where it came to scholarly attention.<ref name="n565"/><br />
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The first edited version was published in 1921 by Mufti Anwarul Haq, though later scholars criticized the edition for inaccuracies. Subsequent studies by [[Imtiaz Ali 'Arshi'|Maulana Imtiaz Ali Khan Arshi]] and others attempted to establish a more reliable text. The original manuscript was last reported in the mid-1940s and is believed to have been lost during the upheavals of [[partition of India|partition in 1947]].<ref name="n565"/><br />
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Modern editions and facsimiles have relied on earlier notes, [[collation]]s, and [[photograph]]s of the manuscript. In the twenty-first century, [[book scanning|digitized scan]]s from private archives, including the Hussaini Art Gallery, helped revive scholarly access to the text.<ref name="n565"/><br />
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== Synopsis ==<br />
The Nuskha-e-Hamidiya consists mainly of [[ghazal]]s, with a total of around 1,900{{endash}}2152<ref name="c717">{{cite web | last=Kumar | first=Nikhil | title=Why We Must Read Ghalib's Rejected Verses | website=The Wire | date=2024-03-30 | url=https://thewire.in/culture/books/why-we-must-read-ghalibs-rejected-verses | access-date=2025-08-27}}</ref><ref name="n565"/> verses, of which nearly 1,200 do not appear in the standard printed editions. [[:wikt:marginal note|Marginal note]]s, additions, and seals provide insight into the manuscript's transmission history. Some marginal ghazals have been the subject of scholarly [[debate]], with differing opinions about whether they were composed by Ghalib himself or added from other contemporary sources.<ref name="n565"/><br />
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== Significance ==<br />
The ''Nuskha-e-Hamidiya'' provides insight into the range of Ghalib's early poetic production prior to the selective revisions that shaped his later published dīwān. It documents material that illustrates processes of revision and exclusion, and has been a source for discussion regarding the attribution of certain poems and the role of [[scribe]]s and early compilers in the transmission of the text.<ref name="n565"/><br />
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The manuscript's discovery expanded the known corpus of Ghalib's poetry and contributed to later editorial work. Its study has also been examined in the context of canon formation in the [[Urdu literature]] and the practices of manuscript transmission in nineteenth-century India.<ref name="n565"/><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* ''[[Diwan-e-Ghalib]]''<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{cite web | last=Tahir | first=Nabil | title=Bijnori – A scholar ahead of his time | website=The Express Tribune | date=2024-09-14 | url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2496224/bijnori-a-scholar-ahead-of-his-time | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241006050225/https://tribune.com.pk/story/2496224/bijnori-a-scholar-ahead-of-his-time | archive-date=2024-10-06 | url-status=live | access-date=2025-08-27}}<br />
* {{cite book | last=Ghalib | first=Mirza Asadullah Khan | title=Dīvān-i G̲h̲ālib: Nusk̲h̲a-e-Hameedia | publisher=Majlasi Tarraqī-e-Urdū | date=1969 | url=https://books.google.com/books/about/D%25C4%25ABv%25C4%2581n_i_G%25CC%25B2h%25CC%25B2%25C4%2581lib.html?id=6kBRwAEACAAJ&redir_esc=y | language=ur | access-date=2025-08-27}}<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://www.rekhta.org/ebooks/detail/nuskha-e-hamidiya-deewan-e-ghalib-mirza-ghalib-ebooks Nuskha-e-Hamidiya] at [[Rekhta (website)|Rekhta]]<br />
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