Persian poetry first entered the Indian subcontinent during the second period of Qaznavid dynasty in the north of India and is mainly reflected in the poetry of such poets as Masoud Saad Salman. The second wave started with the Moghul invasion during which many Iranian scientists, scholars, poets and Sufis moved to the north of India. The result of this mass emigration was the emergence of such eminent poets as Amirkhosro Dehlavi and Amirhossein Dehlavi. During the Baberian period, the third wave took place. During this time, which lasted around three hundred years, India became the center of Persian poetry giving rise to a form that came to be labeled as Indian style of Persian poetry. This article attempts to conduct an in-depth study of three major poets of Indian style: Orfi, Zohori and Taleb-e Amoli. Moreover, it endeavours to show how their innovations in Persian poetry encouraged a host of indigenous Indian poets and the style of poetry that came to be called "Tarz-e-Khiyal", with Bidel-e Dehlavi being the most prominent poet of this style. Thus Persian poetry spread across India until the advent of the British colonization.
