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1917Dec, 16

Nabi Bux Khan Baloch

Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani author and scholar (d. 2011)
Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch (Sindhi: نبي بخش خان بلوچ, Balochi: نبی بخش خان بلوچ) (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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