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The first writer to use Urdu as the medium of poetic expression was

  1. Amir Khusrou

  2. Mirza Ghalib

  3. Bahadur Shah Zafar

  4. Faiz

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Amir Khusrau (1253-1325) is widely regarded as one of the first poets to write in what evolved into Urdu, blending Persian with local Indian languages. He lived in the 13th-14th century during the Delhi Sultanate. Mirza Ghalib and Bahadur Shah Zafar were much later (19th century) poets, and Faiz was a 20th century poet.

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