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Qalandar Bakhsh wrote a total of 7,560 verses of ghazal, alongside 194 pages of fards, rubaiyat, haft-band and hajviyat.

Sheikh Muhammad Roshan (Kayastha Muslim from Patna, Bihar) left a Diwan of 30,000 verses of mystic, philosophical and introspective poetry. He was regarded as one of the best mystical Urdu poets and a competitor of Mir Dard Dehlavi (Mir Ghulam Hussain).

While Iqbal asked the Arabs and Turks to renounce their tribal pride, he counted his Brahmin ancestry as meritorious and virtuous. The reason Iqbal cannot be described as an anti-caste thinker is that neither he nor the Muslim gentry of his time engaged with the emergence of a potential or organised middle or labouring class challenging the established Muslim gentry... There was a virtual absence of a Muslim middle class.. it was largely either a gentleman or the labourer. There have been very negligible anti-caste activists among Muslims. Even the early Pasmaandah movement in Bihar was primarily concerned with the genuine political and economic advancement of its constituent communities, rather than fundamentally challenging the ideological framework and social authority of the Muslim gentry. ———————— One more thing: I do not want anybody ranting that I have failed to understand Iqbal here. I do understand him, and yes, he is invoking his Brahmin ancestry to counter the Hashmi... Had he been a Mahar, what would he have said? Look at me.. I am born from the feeey of Brahma.. Yes, he does bring the virtue of lineage.