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  "ar": "حافظ علي خان",
  "en": "Hafiz Ali Khan",
  "ur": "حافظ علی خان"
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  "ar": "عازف سرود هندي (1888–1972)، وُلد في غواليور لأسرة بانغاش من عازفي السرود وتعلّم على يد وزير خان في رامبور. اشتهر بجمال عزفه الغنائي ونقاء صوت آله، وكان موسيقيَّ بلاطٍ في غواليور قبل أن تستقطبه مهرجانات البنغال ورعاة كلكتا، ونال وسام بادما بهوشان سنة 1960.",
  "en": "Indian sarod player (1888–1972), born at Gwalior into the Bangash line of sarod players and trained under Wazir Khan of Rampur. Known for the lyrical beauty and crystal-clear tone of his playing, he was a court musician at Gwalior, performed at Bengal's great festivals and taught there, and received the Padma Bhushan in 1960.",
  "ur": "ہندوستانی سرود نواز (1888ء–1972ء)، گوالیار میں سرود نوازوں کے بنگش خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے اور رام پور کے وزیر خان سے تعلیم پائی۔ ان کے لَے دار اور شفاف عزف کی شہرت دور دور تک تھی؛ وہ گوالیار کے درباری موسیقار رہے، بنگال کی محفلوں میں عزف کیا اور 1960ء میں پدما بھوشن سے نوازے گئے۔"
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  "latest": 1973.0007460796278
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   "note": "The English article's infobox and Wikidata agree: born in 1888 at Gwalior, a son of the sarod player Nanneh Khan. The Hijri year (1305) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Gwalior, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1972-12",
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   "note": "The English article's lead gives his death in December 1972, aged 84, and Wikidata gives the year 1972; the record carries the month the lead states. The place is split inside the article itself — its infobox gives Mumbai, its text, citing the SwarGanga profile, gives New Delhi — so no died_in edge is written and the split is stated here. The Hijri year (1392) is a conversion.",
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    "value": "حافظ علی خان",
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   "note": "The English article's infobox and Wikidata agree: born in 1888 at Gwalior, a son of the sarod player Nanneh Khan. The Hijri year (1305) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Gwalior, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "note": "The English article's lead gives his death in December 1972, aged 84, and Wikidata gives the year 1972; the record carries the month the lead states. The place is split inside the article itself — its infobox gives Mumbai, its text, citing the SwarGanga profile, gives New Delhi — so no died_in edge is written and the split is stated here. The Hijri year (1392) is a conversion.",
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    "note": "No consulted source states his religion at all. The English article's text gives his Bangash lineage of Gwalior sarod players, his teachers (his father Nanneh Khan, his cousin Abdulla Khan, Mohammad Amir Khan and the beenkar Wazir Khan of Rampur) and his career, and names no affiliation for him; Wikidata carries no religion value. A lineage, a family name and teachers never count as an attestation, and no source names a school, so under the two-source rule the value stays unknown.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد سنة 1888 في غواليور، وهو ابن عازف السرود نانّه خان، ونشأ في مجتمع من عازفي السرود، ويُرجّح أنه تعلّم على يد والده وعدد من تلاميذه المقربين.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} ثم أخذ عن ابن عمه عبد الله خان وابن أخيه محمد أمير خان، وأخيرا عن عازف البين وزير خان في رامبور — الذي يُقال إنه من نسل تانسين المباشر من جهة ابنته؛ وكان علاء الدين خان الميهاري زميلا له في التتلمذ على وزير خان في الفترة نفسها.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} ويُقال أيضا إنه درس الدروباد في ماثورا والثومري على يد بهايا غانباتراو.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "جعلته هيبته الملكية وحضوره الآسر من أكثر موسيقيي عصره طلبا، وهو إنجاز لافت لعازف آلة في عصر هيمنت عليه الموسيقى الغنائية.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} وبينما كان موسيقيَّ بلاطٍ في غواليور قام برحلات عديدة إلى البنغال، فعزف في مهرجاناتها الكبرى ودرّس فيها تلاميذ، ووجدت موسيقاه راعيَين كريمَين في أرستقراطيَّين بنغاليَّين، رايتشاند بورال ومانماثا غوش، وكلاهما تتلمذ عليه.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} وفي أوساط نائب الملك في الهند الاستعمارية لقي تقديرا لأدائه المميّز المصمَّم لنشيد «حفظ الله الملك» على السرود.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} ولاحظ بعض النقاد أن خياله كان أقرب إلى أسلوب الثومري شبه الكلاسيكي منه إلى أسلوب الدروباد الصارم السائد آنذاك.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوفاة",
     "markdown": "توفي حافظ علي خان في ديسمبر 1972 عن 84 عاما؛ يجعل نص المقالة، نقلا عن ملفه في سوارغانغا، وفاته في نيودلهي، بينما يجعلها صندوق المعلومات في بومباي — ويُثبت الاختلاف كما ورد.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} ويحمل اسمه طريق في دلهي، هو المدخل الثاني لمحطة نظام الدين للسكك الحديدية، وهو من الطرق القليلة في العاصمة المسماة بأسماء فنانين، بعد تانسين وتياغاراجا.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikidata-hafiz-ali-khan}"
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     "heading": "Early life and training",
     "markdown": "He was born in 1888 at Gwalior, a son of the sarod player Nanneh Khan, and grew up in a community of sarod players; it is likely that he studied with his father and a number of his father's proximate disciples.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} He later took lessons from his cousin Abdulla Khan, his nephew Mohammad Amir Khan, and finally the beenkar Wazir Khan of Rampur — a direct descendant, it is said, of Tansen through the line of Tansen's daughter; Allauddin Khan of Maihar was a fellow pupil of Wazir Khan in the same period.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} He is also said to have studied dhrupad and thumri in Mathura and with Bhaiya Ganpatrao.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "His regal appearance and electrifying charisma made him one of the most sought-after musicians of his time — no mean feat for an instrumentalist in an era dominated by vocal music.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} While still a court musician in Gwalior he undertook numerous trips to Bengal, performed at major music festivals and taught a number of disciples there; his music found generous patrons in two Bengali aristocrats, Raychand Boral and Manmatha Ghosh, both of whom studied with him.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} In the Viceregal circles of colonial India he was also appreciated for his unique, stylised renditions of \"God Save the King\" on the sarod.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} The occasional critic observed that his imagination was often closer to the semi-classical thumri idiom than to the austere dhrupad style prevalent at the time.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "Hafiz Ali Khan died in December 1972, at the age of 84; the article's text, citing his SwarGanga profile, places his death in New Delhi, while its infobox gives Mumbai — the split is recorded here as the article gives it.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} A road in Delhi, the second entry road to Nizamuddin railway station, is named after him — one of only three capital roads named for artists, after Tansen and Thyagaraja.{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en}"
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     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ 1888ء میں گوالیار میں سرود نواز ننھے خان کے گھر پیدا ہوئے اور سرود نوازوں کی برادری میں پروان چڑھے؛ غالب گمان ہے کہ انھوں نے والد اور ان کے قریبی شاگردوں سے تعلیم پائی۔{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} بعد میں انھوں نے چچا زاد عبد اللہ خان، بھتیجے محمد امیر خان اور آخر میں رام پور کے بین کار وزیر خان سے سبق لیے — وزیر خان کے بارے میں کہا جاتا ہے کہ وہ تان سین کی بیٹی کی نسل سے تھے؛ مَیہر کے علاؤالدین خان بھی اسی دور میں وزیر خان کے شاگرد تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} یہ بھی کہا جاتا ہے کہ انھوں نے متھرا میں دھرپد اور بھیا گنپت راؤ سے ٹھمری کی تعلیم حاصل کی۔{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "فنی سفر",
     "markdown": "ان کی شاہانہ وضع اور کرشماتی شخصیت نے انھیں اپنے عہد کے سب سے زیادہ طلب کیے جانے والے موسیقاروں میں شامل کر دیا — یہ ایک ساز نواز کے لیے بڑی بات تھی، کیونکہ وہ عہد گلوکاری کے غلبے کا تھا۔{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} گوالیار کے درباری موسیقار ہوتے ہوئے انھوں نے بنگال کے متعدد دورے کیے، بڑی محفلوں میں عزف کیا اور وہاں شاگرد بنائے؛ ان کے سرپرستوں میں دو بنگالی رئیس، رائے چند بورال اور منمتھا گھوش، شامل تھے جو دونوں ان کے شاگرد بھی رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "حافظ علی خان کا انتقال دسمبر 1972ء میں 84 برس کی عمر میں ہوا؛ مضمون کا متن سوار گنگا پروفائل کے حوالے سے ان کی وفات نئی دہلی میں بتاتا ہے جبکہ معلوماتی خانہ ممبئی بتاتا ہے — اختلاف اسی صورت درج ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en} دہلی میں نظام الدین ریلوے اسٹیشن کی دوسری داخلی سڑک ان کے نام پر ہے۔{cite:wikipedia-hafiz-ali-khan-en}"
    },
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