He no longer comes to the kotha and Umrao Jaan must meet him secretly, by the help of Gauhar Mirza. The couple fall in love, but fate brings the old ruffian back to her life, this time he is face to face with the Sultan, after a heated argument Nawab Sultan shoots him and Dilawar Khan is wounded in the arm. Umrao Jaan attracts the handsome and wealthy Nawab Sultan. She eventually gains her first client, (earning her the suffix of jaan) but prefers the impoverished Gauhar Mirza, her friend. As Umrao grows up, she is surrounded by a culture of luxury, music and poetry.
Together with the other apprentice tawaif and Gauhar Mirza, the mischievous illegitimate son of a local Nawab, she is taught to read and write in both Urdu and Persian. She is renamed Umrao and begins to study classical music and dance. There she is sold for 150 rupees to Khanum Jaan, the head tawaif of a kotha. She is imprisoned with another girl, Ram Dai, but the two are separated when Dilawar Khan takes her to Lucknow. Khan kidnaps Amiran and decides to sell her in Lucknow. After the criminal Dilawar Khan is released from jail, he decides to get revenge as her father testified against him in court. Umrao Jaan is born as Amiran ( Urdu: اميرن) to a modest family in Faizabad. The existence of an Uttar Pradesh dacoit named Fazal Ali is recorded, and there are British documents that mention the claims of a courtesan named Azizan Bai who stated that she was taught by Umrao Jaan. She does appear in his earlier unfinished novel Afshai Raz, but is very different from the cultured character in Umrao Jaan Ada. The existence of Umrao Jaan Ada is disputed among scholars as there are few mentions of her outside of Ruswa's book. The novel is known for its elaborate portrayal of mid-19th century Lucknow, its decadent society, and also describes the moral hypocrisy of the era, where Umrao Jaan also becomes the symbol of a nation that had long attracted many suitors who were only looking to exploit her. The book was first published by Gulab Munshi and Sons Press, Lucknow in 1899. The novel is written in first person as a memoir. On listening to her couplets, the author along with Munshi Ahmad, a novel and poetry enthusiast present at the gathering, convinces Umrao Jaan to share her life story with them. According to the novel, the story of Umrao Jaan was recounted by her to the author, when he happened to meet her during a mushaira (poetry gathering) in Lucknow.
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