Gulam Rabbani was an Indian lawyer and poet of Urdu literature who wrote under the nom de plume 'Taban'.
[1] He wrote several poems in Urdu, especially ghazals,[2] and was known for his works, Zauq-i safar,[3] Nava-e-avara,[4] Poetics to politics[5] and Saz-i larzan.
[8] Gulam Rabbani was born at Kaimganj, a small hamlet in Farrukhabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on 15 February 1914 in a rich family of Zamindars.
He graduated from St. John's College, Agra where he mixed with students most of whom were attracted to leftist ideology and took a degree in law.
[1] His leftist leanings got him into trouble with the British authorities and post independence, with the Indian law and order and he had to suffer incarceration on two occasions.