He was the governor of Agra under the Marathas. Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan (Ghalib's uncle) started taking care of the three orphaned children. He was raised first by his Uncle Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan. Then Ghalib was a little over 5 years of age. He died in a battle in 1803 in Alwar and was buried at Rajgarh (Alwar, Rajasthan).
He was employed first by the Nawab of Lucknow and then the Nizam of Hyderabad, Deccan. Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan (Ghalib's father) got married to Izzat-ut-Nisa Begum, and then lived at the house of his father in law. Mirza Abdullah Baig Khan and Mirza Nasrullah Baig Khan were two of his sons. He worked at Lahore, Delhi and Jaipur, was awarded the subdistrict of Pahasu (Bulandshahr, UP) and finally settled in Agra, UP, India.
His paternal grandfather, Mirza Qoqan Baig Khan was a Saljuq Turk who had immigrated to India from Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan) during the reign of Ahmad Shah (1748–54). Mirza Ghalib was born in Agra into a family descended from Aibak Turks who moved to Samarkand after the downfall of the Seljuk kings. Ghalib today remains popular not only in India and Pakistan but also amongst diaspora communities around the world. He is considered, in South Asia, to be one of the most popular and influential poets of the Urdu language. Most notably, he wrote several ghazals during his life, which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people. During his lifetime the Mughals were eclipsed and displaced by the British and finally deposed following the defeat of the Indian rebellion of 1857, events that he wrote of. His pen-names was Ghaliband Asad or Asad or Galib. His also known as 'Mirza Asadullah Khan Galib', 'Mirza Galib', 'Dabir-ul-Mulk' and 'Najm-ud-Daula'. Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan (Urdu/Persian: مرزا اسد اللہ بیگ خان) was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from India during British colonial rule.
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