Nabi Bux Khan Baloch
| Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch | |
|---|---|
| Born |
16 December 1917 Jaffer Khan Laghari village, Taluka Sinjhoro, Sanghar District, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Died | 6 April 2011 (aged 93) Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan |
| Cause of death | Cardiac arrest |
Nabi Bakhsh Khan (a.k.a. "N. A.") Baloch (Sindhi: نبي بخش خان بلوچ) (16 December 1917 – 6 April 2011) was a research scholar and writer. He contributed to many subjects and disciplines of knowledge which include history, education, folklore, archaeology, anthropology, musicology, Islamic culture and civilisation. His published over 100 works in English, Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Saraiki. Almost double would be the number of his research articles published in local and foreign languages. He contributed articles on 'Sindh' and 'Baluchistan' which appeared in the Fifteenth Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, 1972.
He did pioneering work on the classic poets of Sindh which culminated in the Ten Volume Critical Text of Shah Jo Risalo, the poetic compendium of Shah Abdul Latif, the great Sufi poet of Sindh. He edited Forty-two volumes on Sindhi Folklore, with scholarly Prefaces in English, 'Folklore and Literature Project' Sindhi Adabi Board.
In addition, he compiled and published a Sindhi dictionary ''Jami'a Sindhi Lughaat' in five volumes which was later revised in three volumes. He also compiled Sindhi-to-Urdu, Urdu-to-Sindhi dictionaries co-authored with Ghulam Mustafa Khan. His works also include the compilation and editing of classical Sindhi poets including Shah Inayat Rizvi, Qadi Qadan, Khalifo Nabibakhsh, and Hamal Faqir. In the field of history, the following works edited by Baloch hold a special importance: Tareekh Ma'soomee,Chachnama,Tuhfatul Kiram by Mir Ali Sher Qania, Lubb-i-Tareekh Sindh by Khudad Khan, Tareekh-i-Tahiree by Mir Tahir Muhammad Nisyani, Beglar Nama by Idrakee Beglaree.
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