The Captured Gazelle is a remarkably elegant and lucent translation by Mudasir Mufti (Zunkunftsphilologie Fellow 2012-2013/University of Kashmir) of the select poems of Mulla Tahir Ghani (d.1669), better known as Ghani Kashmiri, a seventeenth-century Persian poet who enjoyed tremendous popularity in India and the Persian-speaking world up to the modern period.  Eulogised, among many others, by poets such as Mir and Iqbal, Ghani is an outstanding representative of Sabk-e Hindi or the ‘Indian Style’ in Persian poetry, which became a hallmark of the Mughal-Safawid literary culture. The introduction situates Ghani against his unique background in which Iranian and Indian poetic cultures came together to create a glorious literary age in Kashmir, while the translations capture Ghani in his wide spectrum of moods - satirical, playful, self-pitying, pessimistic and mystically-resigned - bringing alive his wit and ingenuity in a modern idiom without losing hold on the tone and essence of the original.