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  "ar": "بيجوم أختر",
  "en": "Begum Akhtar",
  "ur": "بیگم اختر"
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  "ar": "مغنية هندية (1914–1974)، وُلدت باسم أختري باي فيض آبادي في فيض آباد، ولُقّبت «ملكة الغزل»، وتُعدّ من أعظم مغنيات الغزل والثمري والدادرة؛ مثّلت في أفلام في الثلاثينيات وفي فيلم «روتي» (1942)، ونالت جائزة أكاديمية سانغيت ناتاك (1972) ووسام بادما شري (1968)، ومُنحت بادما بوشان بعد وفاتها.",
  "en": "Indian singer (1914–1974), born Akhtari Bai Faizabadi at Faizabad, dubbed Mallika-e-Ghazal, 'Queen of Ghazals', and regarded as one of the greatest exponents of ghazal, thumri and dadra; she acted in films in the 1930s and in Mehboob Khan's Roti (1942), received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1972) and the Padma Shri (1968), and was awarded the Padma Bhushan posthumously.",
  "ur": "بھارتی گلوکارہ ⁦(1914ء–1974ء)⁩، جو اختری بائی فیض آبادی کے نام سے فیض آباد میں پیدا ہوئیں، «ملکہِ غزل» کہلائیں اور غزل، ٹھمری اور دادرے کی عظیم ترین گلوکاروں میں شمار ہوتی ہیں؛ تیس کی دہائی میں اور فلم «روٹی» ⁦(1942ء)⁩ میں اداکاری کی، سنگیت ناٹک اکیڈمی ایوارڈ ⁦(1972ء)⁩ اور پدم شری ⁦(1968ء)⁩ پایا اور بعد از وفات پدم بھوشن سے نوازی گئیں۔"
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  "latest": 1974.829667960296
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   "edtf": "1914-10-07",
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   "note": "Born on 7 October 1914 at Faizabad, in the United Provinces of British India, the daughter of the lawyer Asghar Hussain and his second wife Mushtari: the English article, the Urdu article and Wikidata agree. Faizabad has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year 1332 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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    "source/wikipedia-begum-akhtar-ur",
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   "note": "Died on 30 October 1974 at Ahmedabad, in Gujarat, after falling ill on a concert tour: the English article and Wikidata agree. She was buried beside her mother in a mango orchard at her home, Pasand Bagh in Lucknow. Ahmedabad and Lucknow have no place entities, so no died_in edge is written. The Hijri year 1394 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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    "value": "Akhtari Bai Faizabadi",
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   {
    "value": "Akhtaribai Faizabadi",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   {
    "value": "Begum Akhtar",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "بيجوم أختر",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "بیگم اختر",
    "kind": "full"
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   {
    "value": "Mallika-e-Ghazal",
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   "note": "Born on 7 October 1914 at Faizabad, in the United Provinces of British India, the daughter of the lawyer Asghar Hussain and his second wife Mushtari: the English article, the Urdu article and Wikidata agree. Faizabad has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written. The Hijri year 1332 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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   "edtf": "1974-10-30",
   "hijri": "1394",
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   "note": "Died on 30 October 1974 at Ahmedabad, in Gujarat, after falling ill on a concert tour: the English article and Wikidata agree. She was buried beside her mother in a mango orchard at her home, Pasand Bagh in Lucknow. Ahmedabad and Lucknow have no place entities, so no died_in edge is written. The Hijri year 1394 is a tabular conversion of the followed date, marked derived.",
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   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "Absence configuration: no source read names a school for her. Wikidata carries a single religion value, Islam, and the English article files her in its '20th-century Indian Muslims' category — one structured-and-filing family, which is not an attestation of any school. The English article also records that in 1937–38 she met the spiritual master Meher Baba, sang devotional Sufi ghazals for him and became his devotee; devotion to a spiritual master and a devotional repertoire are not a school and were not counted, any more than her teachers or her Lucknow burial count. Under the two-source rule the value stays unknown.",
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   "source": "English, Arabic and Urdu Wikipedia biographies of Begum Akhtar and the Wikidata item Q3595116, read in full; every revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session and asserted before use, and the QID was grounded through the English article's page properties. Identity: the queue line's bearer is the Faizabad-born ghazal singer (1914–1974), born Akhtari Bai Faizabadi. Existence checks by name fragments (akhtar, begum, akhtari) and by QID across data/person on origin/main found no prior record for her. The queue's years (1914–1974) are confirmed to the day at both ends. CAUTION carried in the prose: her first singing teacher was a sarangi player named Imdad Khan of Patna — a different man from Imdad Khan the sitarist, Vilayat Khan's grandfather, and the two are not linked anywhere in this record. Relations written: none — Faizabad, Ahmedabad and Lucknow have no place entities, and her parents, teachers and husband hold no person records.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "أختري باي فيض آبادي ⁦(7 أكتوبر 1914 – 30 أكتوبر 1974)⁩، المعروفة باسم بيجوم أختر، مغنية هندية وُلدت في فيض آباد ابنة للمحامي أصغر حسين وزوجته مشتاري.{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-ar}{cite:wikidata-begum-akhtar} تتلمذت على كبار أساتذة عصرها، ولُقّبت «ملكة الغزل»، وتُعدّ من أعظم مغنيات الغزل والثمري والدادرة، ومثّلت في أفلام الثلاثينيات وفي فيلم «روتي» (1942) لمحبوب خان.{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-en}\n\nتزوجت سنة 1945 من المحامي اللكنوي اشتياق أحمد عباسي، ونالت جائزة أكاديمية سانغيت ناتاك سنة 1972 ووسام بادما شري سنة 1968، ومُنحت بادما بوشان بعد وفاتها.{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-en}{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-ur} توفيت في أحمد آباد في 30 أكتوبر 1974 ودُفنت بجوار والدتها في باسند باغ بلكناو.{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-en}"
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   "updated": "2026-11-09"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Akhtari Bai Faizabadi (7 October 1914 – 30 October 1974), known as Begum Akhtar, was an Indian singer born at Faizabad, the daughter of the lawyer Asghar Hussain and his wife Mushtari.{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-en}{cite:wikidata-begum-akhtar} Trained by leading masters of the day, she was dubbed Mallika-e-Ghazal, 'Queen of Ghazals', and is regarded as one of the greatest singers of ghazal, thumri and dadra; she also acted in films of the 1930s and in Mehboob Khan's Roti (1942).{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-en}\n\nShe married the Lucknow barrister Ishtiaq Ahmed Abbasi in 1945, received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1972 and the Padma Shri in 1968, and was awarded the Padma Bhushan posthumously.{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-en}{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-ur} She died at Ahmedabad on 30 October 1974 and was buried beside her mother at Pasand Bagh in Lucknow.{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-en}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "اختری بائی فیض آبادی (7 اکتوبر 1914ء – 30 اکتوبر 1974ء)، جو بیگم اختر کے نام سے مشہور ہوئیں، بھارتی گلوکارہ تھیں جو فیض آباد میں وکیل اصغر حسین اور ان کی اہلیہ مشتاری کے ہاں پیدا ہوئیں۔{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-ur}{cite:wikidata-begum-akhtar} اپنے عہد کے بڑے استادوں سے تعلیم پائی، «ملکہِ غزل» کہلائیں اور غزل، ٹھمری اور دادرے کی عظیم ترین گلوکاروں میں شمار ہوتی ہیں؛ انھوں نے تیس کی دہائی کی فلموں اور محبوب خان کی «روٹی» (1942ء) میں اداکاری بھی کی۔{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-en}\n\n1945ء میں انھوں نے لکھنؤ کے بیرسٹر اشتیاق احمد عباسی سے شادی کی، 1972ء میں سنگیت ناٹک اکیڈمی ایوارڈ اور 1968ء میں پدم شری پایا اور بعد از وفات پدم بھوشن سے نوازی گئیں۔{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-ur}{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-en} وہ 30 اکتوبر 1974ء کو احمد آباد میں وفات پا گئیں اور لکھنؤ کے پسند باغ میں والدہ کے پہلو میں دفن ہوئیں۔{cite:wikipedia-begum-akhtar-en}"
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