Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Harivansh Rai Bachchan" in English language version.
When we entered Amit for school, we adopted 'Bachchan' as our family name, registering him as 'Amitabh Bachchan'; and when our second son was born, he was called 'Ajitabh Bachchan'
Harivansh Rai Bachchan recalled how some of the Urdu vocabulary used by audiences in appreciating poetic recitals in Hindi kavi sammelans was consciously changed to Sanskritized Hindi creating an artificial Hindi idiom.
He was influenced by Persian and Urdu poetry, especially by Omar Khayyam and started versifying in the Bachchalian style.