Although his works, like other Middle Bengali poetry, are religion-centric, they are marked by social consciousness and tolerance, and contain many Rangpuri dialectic features.
Mahmud is considered to be the last poet of Middle Bengali literature,[1] and his lifespan directly ends shortly after the British East India Company's victory at the Battle of Plassey.
[2] Mahmud was born in 1693, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Jharbishila in Sarkar Ghoraghat, Bengal Subah, Mughal Empire.
As a resident of Ghoraghat, his works have strong influences from the Rangpuri dialect and the Persian-influenced Dobhashi register.
His earliest found book, titled Jangnāmā (1723), narrates the Battle of Karbala in zari style.