Mirza Kalich Baig ( sd, مرزا قليچ بيگ) was a scholar within

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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

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(presently in

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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

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, Persian,

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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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beg, Mirza Kalich 1853 births 1929 deaths People from Hyderabad, Sindh Scholars from Sindh Sindhi-language writers Sindhi people Writers from Sindh