Nabi Bakhsh Baloch

Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch (Sindhi: نبي بخش خان بلوچ; 16 December 1917 – 6 April 2011) was a Sindhi research scholar, historian, sindhologist, educationist, linguist and writer. He predominantly wrote in Sindhi, including Urdu, English, Persian and Arabic. He has been described as the "moving library" of the Pakistani province of Sindh.^[1][2]

The author of some 150 books, he contributed to many subjects and disciplines of knowledge which include history, education, folklore, archeology, anthropology, musicology, Islamic culture and civilisation. He contributed two articles - on Sindh and Baluchistan - which appeared in the Fifteenth Edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, 1972.

Baloch did pioneering work on the classic poets of Sindh, culminating in the ten-volume critical text of Shah Jo Risalo, the poetic compendium of the Sufi poet of Sindh, Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. He edited 42 volumes on Sindhi folklore, with scholarly prefaces in English, under the heading of the Folklore and Literature Project.

In addition, he compiled and published a Sindhi dictionary, Jami'a Sindhi Lughaat^[3] in five volumes which was later revised into three volumes. With Ghulam Mustafa Khan, he also compiled Sindhi-to-Urdu, Urdu-to-Sindhi dictionaries. 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, he edited works including 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.