THE BEST AVAILABLE DATING FOR THE GHAZALS OF THE 'TRADITIONAL DIVAN'
For the material in the chart below I am indebted to the detailed and painstaking scholarship of Kalidas Gupta Raza. Any errors are mine alone, and I will try to correct them as I learn more.

In the index of each ghazal I have given the page number in Raza's book where that ghazal appears. Raza's work is fascinating not only for dating purposes, but also because it includes the verses from the original ghazal that Ghalib did NOT choose to include in his published divan.

 
1812 {088}
1813-1816 -- nus;xah-e bhopaal 74 ghazals: all of those not listed elsewhere in this chart
1817-1821 -- nus;xah-e ;hamiidiyah -- which included nus;xah-e bhopaal {003}, {004}, {006}, {009}, {011}, {016}, {017}, {018}, {027}, {029}, {034}, {035}, {038}, {040}, {042}, {056}, {057}, {058}, {061}, {068}, {071}, {072}, {077}, {078}, {090}, {092}, {104}, {108}, {130}, {131}, {132}, {133}, {136}, {137}, {140}, {141}, {142}, {143}, {152}, {168}, {170}, {175}, {182}, {214}
1822-1826 -- nus;xah-e sheraanii and other ghazals after 1821 {007}, {013}, {019}, {048}, {049}, {051}, {080}, {085}, {105}, {116}, {119}, {129}, {138}, {139}, {148}, {153}, {154}, {164}, {189}, {193}, {205}, {225}, {233}
1826 -- ghazals that can be dated specifically to this year {095}, {103}, {112}, {114}, {167}, {176}, {183}, {186}, {196}, {197}, {202}, {210}, {224}
1827-1828 -- nus;xah-e sheraanii and gul-e ra((naa and ghazals after 1826 {010}, {021}, {087}, {100}, {101}, {123}, {169}
1828 {157}
1828-1833 -- nus;xah-e raampuur and other ghazals {052}, {055}, {060}, {083}, {089}, {106}, {122}, {127}, {135}, {144}, {156}, {158}, {173}
1834-1847 -- the 1841 and 1847 printed diivaan volumes, and manuscript sources, for the following four groups:
        1835 {150}
        1838 {121}
        after 1838 {134}, {198}, {207}
        1847 {086}, {091}, {097}, {098}, {234}
1848-1852 -- nus;xah-e laahor and other ghazals in the following five groups:
        after 1847 {020}, {030}, {031}, {032}, {036}, {043}, {059}, {124}, {151}, {159}, {160}, {161}, {162}, {174}, {177}, {178}, {179}, {215}
        1849 {099}
        1850 {110}
        1851 {163}, {231}
        1852 {014}, {062}, {066}, {102}, {111}, {204}, {232}
1853-1857 -- nus;xah-e raampuur, 2nd edition, and other ghazals in the following four groups:
        1853 {115}, {120}, {125}, {180}, {191}, {201}, {208}, {209}, {219}
        1854 {022}, {026}, {126}
        1854-1855 {046}
        1855 {107}, {118}, {181}, {218}
1857-1862 -- the 1861 and 1862 printed diivaan volumes, and other ghazals:
        1858 {216}
        1862 {070}

 
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