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  "ar": "بندو خان",
  "en": "Bundu Khan",
  "ur": "بندو خان"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "عازف سارنغي (1880–1955)، وُلد في دلهي وتعلّم على يد خاله ممّن خان، وخدم بلاط إندور 27 عاما وكان من أوائل عازفي إذاعة عموم الهند. ألف كتابا في نظرية الموسيقى صدر بالأردية والهندية سنة 1934، وبعد تقسيم الهند هاجر إلى كراتشي وظل يعزف في إذاعات باكستان حتى وفاته.",
  "en": "Sarangi player (1880–1955), born at Delhi and trained by his uncle Mamman Khan; he served the court of Indore for 27 years and played on All India Radio from its first Delhi broadcasts. His book on music theory appeared in Urdu and Hindi in 1934; after Partition he moved to Karachi and played on Pakistan's radio stations until his death.",
  "ur": "سارنگی نواز (1880ء–1955ء)، دہلی میں پیدا ہوئے اور ماموں ممّن خان سے تعلیم پائی؛ وہ اندور کے دربار سے ستائیس برس وابستہ رہے اور آل انڈیا ریڈیو کے اولین نوازوں میں تھے۔ ان کی موسیقی پر کتاب 1934ء میں اردو اور ہندی میں شائع ہوئی؛ تقسیم کے بعد کراچی آ گئے اور وفات تک پاکستان کے ریڈیو سے سارنگی بجاتے رہے۔"
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1879.9995208662738,
  "latest": 1955.0346002997692
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1880",
   "hijri": "1297",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
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   "note": "The English article's infobox and the Urdu article's text agree: born in 1880 at Delhi, into a family of musicians; Wikidata gives the year 1880 at year precision. The Hijri year (1297) is a conversion. A born_in edge to place/delhi is written, the place entity existing.",
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   "edtf": "1955-01-13",
   "hijri": "1374",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree: died 13 January 1955; the English infobox places his death at Karachi and the Urdu article says he is buried there. The Hijri year (1374) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Karachi, so no died_in edge is written.",
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   {
    "value": "Bundu Khan",
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   {
    "value": "Ustad Bundu Khan",
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   "hijri": "1297",
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   "note": "The English article's infobox and the Urdu article's text agree: born in 1880 at Delhi, into a family of musicians; Wikidata gives the year 1880 at year precision. The Hijri year (1297) is a conversion. A born_in edge to place/delhi is written, the place entity existing.",
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   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree: died 13 January 1955; the English infobox places his death at Karachi and the Urdu article says he is buried there. The Hijri year (1374) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Karachi, so no died_in edge is written.",
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  "faith": [
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No consulted source states his religion in text. Neither the English nor the Urdu article names any affiliation for him, and Wikidata carries no religion value. The Urdu article records that, after his uncle's teaching, he became a disciple (shagird) of the malang Mian Ahmad Shah, who taught him his knowledge: that is musical tutelage stated in a single text — it names no order, no initiation and no affiliation — and his migration to Pakistan at Partition and his Karachi milieu name no school either. Under the two-source rule the value stays unknown, with the discipleship statement preserved here as the nearest evidence.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Bundu Khan' (revision 1373850565 of 8 September 2026), Urdu Wikipedia 'بندو خان' (revision 5766846 of 14 January 2024) and Wikidata Q4997568 (item revision 2557031888 of 14 October 2026), each fetched by its recorded revision and checked against it, read on 26 October 2026. Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (bundu, bandu), by Arabic label, by biography and by the Wikidata route (Q4997568) across data/person/ — no earlier record exists; the second Wikidata item of the name is a Kirti Chakra recipient, a different man. No Arabic Wikipedia article exists for him (an Egyptian Arabic stub does and is not used); the Arabic prose is written from the English and Urdu sources and says so. The two articles conflict on his Pride of Performance year — the English says 1985 (posthumous), the Urdu says 1959 — and the record states the split rather than choosing. Relations: only born_in to place/delhi is written; his father Ali Jan Khan, his uncle and teacher Mamman Khan and his sons have no person records, and there is no place entity for Karachi.",
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 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد في دلهي قبل التقسيم في أسرة موسيقية؛ تلقى تدريبه الأول على السارنغي من والده علي جان خان منذ سن الثامنة، ثم من خاله ممّن خان، عازف السارنغي والسورساغار المخضرم من غرانة باتيالا.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} وتضيف الرواية الأردية أنه صار بعد ذلك تلميذا للملنغ مياں أحمد شاه الذي نقل إليه علمه بمحبة بالغة.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "عزف خان السارنغي في محطة دلهي بإذاعة عموم الهند حين بدأ البث سنة 1935، وخدم بلاط إندور الأميري 27 عاما موسيقيَّ بلاط.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} ودرس السنسكريتية ليطلع على موسيقى الهند القديمة، وأتقن أكثر من خمسمئة راغا، وابتدع الأسلوب المعروف بـ«مينده سوت كي سارغام»؛ وكان يعزف على سارنغي أصغر من الحجم المعتاد، فيها أوتار معدنية بدل أوتار المصران، لصوت مختلف.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} وصدر كتابه في الموسيقى «جوهر الموسيقى» بالأردية، ويُعرف بالهندية بـ«سانغيت فيفيك داربان»، باللغتين معا في يونيو 1934.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوفاة والتكريم",
     "markdown": "بعد تقسيم الهند سنة 1947 هاجر خان إلى باكستان وسكن كراتشي، وظل يعزف السارنغي في جميع إذاعات باكستان حتى وفاته في 13 يناير 1955، ودُفن في كراتشي.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur} وله ابنان، عمراو بندو خان وبولند إقبال خان، واصلا تقليده الموسيقي.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} وكُرّم بعد وفاته بوسام الأداء المتميز؛ تجعل المقالة الإنجليزية سنة الوسام 1985 وتجعلها الأردية 1959 — ويثبت السجل الاختلاف دون ترجيح.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-bundu-khan}"
    }
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and training",
     "markdown": "He was born in Delhi, before Partition, into a family of musicians; he received his early sarangi training from his father, Ali Jan Khan, from the age of eight, and later from his uncle Mamman Khan, a veteran sarangi and sursagar player of the Patiala gharana.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} The Urdu account adds that he then became a disciple of the malang Mian Ahmad Shah, who taught him his knowledge with great affection.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "Khan played the sarangi on All India Radio's Delhi station when broadcasting first started in 1935, and served the princely court of Indore for 27 years as a court musician.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} He studied Sanskrit to gain access to the classical music of ancient India, had mastered over 500 ragas, and introduced the technique known as Meendh Soot Ki Sargam; he played a sarangi smaller than the standard size, with some metal strings in place of gut, for a different sound.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} His book on music, *Jauhar-i-Mausiqi* in Urdu, also known as *Sangeet Vivek Darpan* in Hindi, was published simultaneously in both languages in June 1934.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death and recognition",
     "markdown": "After the Partition of India in 1947 Khan migrated to Pakistan and lived in Karachi, continuing to play the sarangi on all the radio stations of Pakistan until his death on 13 January 1955; he is buried in Karachi.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur} He had two sons, Umrao Bundu Khan and Bulund Iqbal Khan, who continued his musical tradition.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} He was honoured posthumously with the Pride of Performance; the English article dates the award to 1985, the Urdu article to 1959 — the record states the split rather than choosing between them.{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-bundu-khan}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ تقسیم سے پہلے دہلی میں ایک موسیقار گھرانے میں پیدا ہوئے؛ آٹھ برس کی عمر سے والد علی جان خان سے سارنگی کی تعلیم شروع کی، پھر ماموں ممّن خان سے، جو پٹیالہ گھرانے کے معروف سارنگی و سر ساگر نواز تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} اردو روایت کے مطابق بعد ازاں وہ ملنگ میاں احمد شاہ کے شاگرد ہوئے جنھوں نے بڑی شفقت سے اپنا علم انھیں منتقل کیا۔{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "فنی سفر",
     "markdown": "خان نے 1935ء میں نشریات کے آغاز پر آل انڈیا ریڈیو دہلی سے سارنگی بجائی اور اندور کے دربار میں ستائیس برس درباری موسیقار رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} انھوں نے قدیم ہندوستانی موسیقی تک رسائی کے لیے سنسکرت کا مطالعہ کیا، پانچ سو سے زائد راگوں پر عبور حاصل کیا اور «میندھ سوت کی سرگم» کی تکنیک متعارف کرائی؛ ان کی سارنگی معمول سے چھوٹی تھی اور اس میں آنت کے تاروں کی جگہ کچھ دھاتی تار تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} ان کی کتاب «جوہرِ موسیقی» (ہندی میں «سنگیت وویک درپن») جون 1934ء میں دونوں زبانوں میں شائع ہوئی۔{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات و اعزاز",
     "markdown": "1947ء کی تقسیم کے بعد وہ پاکستان آ گئے اور کراچی میں رہائش رکھی؛ 13 جنوری 1955ء کو وہیں وفات پائی اور کراچی ہی میں مدفون ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur} ان کے دو بیٹے، عمراؤ بندو خان اور بلند اقبال خان، نے ان کی روایت کو آگے بڑھایا۔{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en} انھیں بعد از وفات تمغائے حسن کارکردگی سے نوازا گیا؛ انگریزی مضمون اس کا سال 1985ء اور اردو مضمون 1959ء بتاتا ہے — یہ اختلاف اسی صورت میں درج ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-bundu-khan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-bundu-khan}"
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