Nafees Fateh Puri's contribution to the tradition of Urdu eulogy in Bahawalpur after partition

This article contains the definition of elegy, the history of elegy in Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages and the

tradition of elegy writing in Bahawalpur. Among the elegiac writers in Bahawalpur, Agha Sikandar Mehdi was the

first to maintain the tradition of elegies, then Gulzar Nadim Sabri, Habib Mohammad Habib, Masood Hasan

Shahab carried forward the elegiac tradition. Nafees Fatehpuri added more colors to the Urdu elegy. Where the

poets of Bahawalpur brought the elegies to the peak, they also have their place in modern elegies. Elegy in simple

language and incorporating all elements of elegies into their elegies gives them a unique position in the elegiac

genre