Mirza Kalich Baig ( sd, مرزا قليچ بيگ) was a scholar within
Sindh
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i literature. He was born on 4 October 1853 in
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on the bank of
Phuleli Canal in
Hyderabad
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,
British India
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(presently in
Pakistan
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).
Family chronicle
The lives of the Mirza family and their Georgian connections are a subject of the 2005 book ''A Georgian Saga: From the Caucasus to the Indus'' by family's scion Meherafroze Mirza Habib, Vice-President of
All Pakistan Women's Association.
Books
He wrote 457 books in 43 disciplines, "including chemistry, physics, biology, zoology, plant sciences, Sindhi literature and anthropology", and in over eight languages, including
Sindhi
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*something from, or related to Sindh, a province of Pakistan
* Sindhi people, an ethnic group from the Sindh region
* Sindhi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them
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* Sarkash Sindhi (1940–2012 ...
,
Persian,
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,
English
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* English language
* English people
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, while he knew 25 languages as a whole.
Mirza Kalich's books include:
* Maqalat-ul-Hikmat *
* Khoodyari
* Alamat-ul-Quran (Signs of Quran)
* Bagh ae Bayani
* Hashrat-ul-Arz
* Zameen pokhin jo ilm ae Hunr
* Keemya-e-Saaat
* Dilaram
* Zeenat novel
* Sao Pan Karo Pano (Auto-Biography)
References
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1853 births
1929 deaths
People from Hyderabad, Sindh
Scholars from Sindh
Sindhi-language writers
Sindhi people
Writers from Sindh