^ibid., p. 242. Muhammad Sadiq, op. cit., p. 96. Muhammad Isma'Il PanTpatI (ed.). Kulliyat-e Nasr-e Hall, Part II (Lahore: Majlis-e-Taraqqi-e-Adab, 1967), pp. 192 et'seq. Ab-e Hayitf p. 264 and pp. 319 et seq. 24 The Delhi College was founded in 1792 with Urdu as its medium of instruction; it also had English classes. It was closed after the Mutiny of 1857, but was revived from 1864 tO 1877. See Aziz Ahmad, An Intellectual History of Islam in India (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1969), pp. 60-1. Ab-e Hay at, pp. 478-9. Muhammad Sadiq, op. cit., p. 236. Quoted by Muhammad Sadiq, ibid., p. 290. ') fi The poem is published under the title "Sam kl Amad aur Rat kl Kaifiyat" ("The Advent of Evening and an Account of Night") in Muhammad Baqir (ed.), Maqalat-e Muhammad Husain Azad (Lahore: 1966), pp. 454-460. The original title "Sab-e Qadr" is mentioned by Saksena, op. cit., p. 221. 29 Muhammad Sadiq, op. cit., pp. 290-1. According to T. Grahame Bailey, the meetings of the musha'irah ceased within a year. See A History of Urdu Literature (London: 1932), p. 96. Kulliyat-e Nasr-e Hall, Part I, p. 242. For more on the different styles of poetry recitation in Urdu, see Regula Qureshi, "Tarannum: the Chanting of Urdu Poetry," in Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, 13:3 (Sept. 1969), pp. 425-468. The patriarch of this house, Lala Sri Ram, was a devoted admirer of Urdu and himself an author of several important books on Urdu poets and their poetry. 84