Josh Malihabadi

Josh Malihabadi جوش ملیح آبادی
Malihabadi (1949)
Born	Shabbir Hasan Khan 5 December 1898 Malihabad, United Provinces, British India
Died	22 February 1982(1982-02-22) (aged 83) Islamabad, Pakistan
Nationality	Indian and Pakistani
Education	Tagore's University, Shantiniketan
Occupation	Poet
Awards	Padma Bhushan, 1954 Hilal-e-Imtiaz, 2013

Padma Bhushan, 1954

Josh Malihabadi (Urdu: جوش ملیح آبادی‎) (born as Shabbir Hasan Khan; شبیر حسن خان) (5 December 1894 – 22 February 1982) was a Pakistani poet. He was an Indian citizen until 1958, when he emigrated to Pakistan and became a Pakistani citizen. He wrote ghazals, nazm and Marsias under the takhallus (Urdu for nom de plume) Josh (جوش) (literally, "Passion" or "Intensity").

Josh was born to an Urdu-speaking Muslim family of Afridi Pashtun origin in Malihabad, United Provinces, British India. He studied at St Peter's College, Agra and passed his Senior Cambridge examination in 1914. Subsequently, he studied Arabic and Persian and, in 1918, spent six months at Tagore's university at Shantiniketan. The death of his father, Bashir Ahmed Khan, in 1916, prevented him from undertaking a college education.