Name: Hyderabad
Address: Hyderabad, South Asia

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Mirza Kalich Beg

Sindhi scholar and man of letters (1853–1929) of Hyderabad, Sindh, who served thirty years in the British judicial service before retiring in 1910, and was titled Shams-ul-Ulama ('Sun of the Scholars') by the British government of India. He wrote and translated some 457 books in eight languages across 43 disciplines, among them Zeenat, the first Sindhi novel, a translation of the Chach Nama from Persian into English, foundational studies of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai and his poetry, and his autobiography Sao Pan Karo Pano.

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