Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch

Pakistani scholar, historian, sindhologist, linguist, educationist

Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1917

Place of Birth: Sanghar, Sindh, Pakistan

Date of Death: 06-Apr-2011

Profession: historian, Professor Emeritus, pedagogue, researcher, folklorist, linguist, lexicographer, vice-chancellor

Nationality: Pakistan

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch

  • Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch (Sindhi: ??? ??? ??? ?????) (16 December 1917 – 6 April 2011) was a research scholar and writer.
  • He was termed as a 'moving library' on the province of Sindh, Pakistan.He contributed to many subjects and disciplines of knowledge which include history, education, folklore, archeology, anthropology, musicology, Islamic culture and civilization.
  • His published works in English, Arabic, Persian, Urdu and Sindhi.
  • He contributed articles on 'Sindh' and 'Baluchistan' which appeared in the Fifteenth Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, 1972. He did pioneering work on the classic poets of Sindh which culminated in the Ten Volume Critical Text of Shah Jo Risalo, the poetic compendium of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai, the great Sufi poet of Sindh.
  • He edited forty-two volumes on Sindhi Folklore, with scholarly prefaces in English, 'Folklore and Literature Project' Sindhi Adabi Board.In addition, he compiled and published a Sindhi dictionary, Jami'a Sindhi Lughaat' in five volumes which was later revised in three volumes.
  • He also compiled Sindhi-to-Urdu, Urdu-to-Sindhi dictionaries co-authored with Ghulam Mustafa Khan.
  • His works also include the compilation and editing of classical Sindhi poets including Shah Inayat Rizvi, Qadi Qadan, Khalifo Nabibakhsh, and Hamal Faqir.
  • In the field of history, the following works edited by Baloch hold a special importance: Tareekh Ma'soomee, Chachnama,Tuhfatul Kiram by Mir Ali Sher Qania, Lubb-i-Tareekh Sindh by Khudad Khan, Tareekh-i-Tahiree by Mir Tahir Muhammad Nisyani, Beglar Nama by Idrakee Beglaree.

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