باغ و بہار
By میر امّن دہلوی
Cover: Akbar and a Dervish (about 1586), Mughal miniature by Abd al-Samad (about 1505-after 1595) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (artist died before 1956)
Mir Amman's Garden and Spring (1802), written at Fort William College in Calcutta, is the Urdu telling of the Four Dervishes. A merchant-prince in trouble is found by a stranger, who has four wandering dervishes tell how each came to lose his throne or fortune. It is the book that made plain, spoken Delhi Urdu a language of prose.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.