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Mir Yar Ali “Jan Sahib” (1818-1886), the “glory of rekhti”, was an Urdu poet from Lucknow. After 1857, he settled in Rampur where he wrote the Musaddas Tahniyat-e-Jashn-e-Benazir. He also published a diwan of poems during his lifetime.
