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Abstract

Tazkira refers to a book in which the life of poets is written. The colour of literary history, criticism and biography deepened on mentions under the demands of time and circumstances and gradually this mixture of three colours, which can be defined as literary history, criticism and not biography in the true sense, came to be mentioned. It was declared as the art of the poet and the short situations of the poet, brief comments on the words and selection of poems were considered as elements of this art. Among them are Tazkira Gulshan-e- Hind, Tabqat -UR- Shoraya -e- Hind, Sarapa Sukhan, Nuskha Dilkusha, Gulistan-e Sukhan, Ab-e- Hayat and Gul-e- Raana. Besides these, Tazkira Nadir (Kalab Hussain Nadir), Tazkira Urdu Ky Chand Tare/Muraqa Shuairay Urdu. (Ameer Hussain Noorani) and Tazkira Jawahar sukhan (Muhammad Mubeen Kaifi) are such Tazkira in which a few elegiac writers are mentioned in short paragraphs.

Key words : Tazkira, biography, criticism, literary history