Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "आब -ए- हयात(आज़ाद)" in Hindi language version.
... Azad's Ab-e hayat (1880) is generally held to be the last tazkirah; by no coincidence, this crucial canon-forming work - which is heavily indebted, as many have recognized, to Nasir's own lively and anecdotal narrative style - is also the first modern literary history...