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  "ar": "الله ديا خان",
  "en": "Alladiya Khan",
  "ur": "اللہ دیا خان"
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  "ar": "مغنٍّ هندي كلاسيكي (1855–1946)، وُلد في أونيارة بولاية جيبور ونشأ في أسرة موسيقية. أسّس غرانة جايبور-أتراولي المعروفة بإحياء الراغات النادرة وابتكارها وبأسلوبها المركّب في الخيال، وخدم موسيقيَّ بلاطٍ في كولهابور أكثر من ربع قرن، وتخرّج عليه جيل من كبار مغنّي الهند.",
  "en": "Indian classical singer (1855–1946), born at Uniara in Jaipur State into a family of musicians. He founded the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana, known for reviving and creating rare ragas and for its intricate khayal style; he served as court musician at Kolhapur for over a quarter of a century and trained a generation of India's leading singers.",
  "ur": "ہندوستانی کلاسیکی گلوکار (1855ء–1946ء)، ریاست جے پور کے قصبہ انیارا میں ایک موسیقار گھرانے میں پیدا ہوئے۔ انھوں نے جے پور-اتراؤلی گھرانہ قائم کیا جو نادر راگوں کی تجدید و تخلیق اور خیال کے پیچیدہ انداز کے لیے مشہور ہوا؛ وہ کولہاپور کے دربار سے ربع صدی سے زائد وابستہ رہے اور ہندوستان کے بڑے گلوکاروں کی ایک نسل ان کے شاگردوں میں سے نکلی۔"
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  "latest": 1946.2048502022312
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   "edtf": "1855-08-10",
   "hijri": "1271",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "note": "The English article's text and infobox and the Urdu article agree: born 10 August 1855 at Uniara in Tonk, then under Jaipur State; Wikidata gives the same date. His birth name was Ghulam Ahmad Khan, recorded among the names. The Hijri year (1271) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Uniara, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1946-03-16",
   "hijri": "1365",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree: died 16 March 1946 at Bombay. The Hijri year (1365) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Bombay, so no died_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "Alladiya Khan",
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   {
    "value": "اللہ دیا خان",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Ghulam Ahmad Khan",
    "kind": "alternate"
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   {
    "value": "Ustad Alladiya Khan",
    "kind": "alternate"
   }
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  "gender": "male",
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   "musician",
   "teacher"
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   "edtf": "1855-08-10",
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   "note": "The English article's text and infobox and the Urdu article agree: born 10 August 1855 at Uniara in Tonk, then under Jaipur State; Wikidata gives the same date. His birth name was Ghulam Ahmad Khan, recorded among the names. The Hijri year (1271) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Uniara, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1946-03-16",
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   "note": "The English and Urdu articles and Wikidata agree: died 16 March 1946 at Bombay. The Hijri year (1365) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Bombay, so no died_in edge is written.",
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    "note": "FLAGGED — the Shia reading stands one attestation short, for the founder's word. The English article's text states, in a single passage, that he was born 'to a Shia Muslim family of musicians' and traces the family's conversion to Islam in the Mughal era: that is family framing in one text, and family background never counts as his own attestation. The Urdu article makes no statement about his religion at all, and Wikidata carries no religion value. Under the founder's mapping rule two sources must attest 'Shia' before a branch can be recorded; here one text attests it of his family only, so the value stays unknown with the reading preserved. No source names a madhhab for him either.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Alladiya Khan' (revision 1381739684 of 24 October 2026), Urdu Wikipedia 'اللہ دیا خان' (revision 6066113 of 17 February 2024) and Wikidata Q4730273 (item revision 2526655719 of 3 August 2026), each fetched by its recorded revision and checked against it, read on 26 October 2026. Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (alladiya, allah-diya, ghulam-ahmad), by Arabic label, by biography and by the Wikidata route (Q4730273) across data/person/ — no earlier record exists; the alauddin-* records are Bengal sultans and alauddin-al-attar, different men. No Arabic Wikipedia article exists for him; the Arabic prose is written from the English and Urdu sources and says so. No relations are written: there is no group entity for the Jaipur-Atrauli gharana, no place entity for Uniara or Bombay, and none of his teachers (his uncle Jehangir Khan) or disciples (Kesarbai Kerkar, Mogubai Kurdikar, Bhaskarbuwa Bakhale, Mallikarjun Mansur) has a person record.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتعليم",
     "markdown": "وُلد في 10 أغسطس 1855 في قرية أونيارة بمنطقة تونك التابعة آنذاك لولاية جيبور، في أسرة موسيقية مسلمة شيعية ترجع أصولها إلى براهمة غاود من غوترا شانديليا، وكانت قد اعتنقت الإسلام في العصر المغولي.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} توفي والده أحمد خان مبكرا، فتولّى عمه جهانغير، من جيبور، تعليمه الدروباد خمس سنوات ثم الخيال ثماني سنوات أخرى، وكان يتدرب على تمارين البلتا ست ساعات يوميا حتى تجاوز الخمسين.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة",
     "markdown": "خدم خان في بلاطات ملوك راجستان المختلفة، وجال في بيهار وباتنا والله آباد ونيبال وبارودا مغنّيا أمام الملوك في صدر حياته.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} وفي أواخر الثلاثينيات من عمره أجهد صوته استجابة لطلب أحد رعاته ففقده نحو عامين، ويُروى أن محدودية الصوت الذي استعاده هي التي أفضت إلى نشأة أسلوب جايبور-أتراولي في الغناء.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} ومن سنة 1895 إلى 1922 استقر في كولهابور موسيقيَّ بلاطٍ للمهاراجا شاهو، ثم انتقل سنة 1922 بعد وفاة الملك إلى بومباي، حيث درّس تلاميذ كثيرين وغنّى في المحافل حتى وفاته.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "موسيقاه وأثره",
     "markdown": "عُرف بابتكار راغات معقّدة كثيرة وإحيائها، منها نات كامود وبوب نات وكاونسي كانادا وسامبورنا مالكاونس وباسانتي كيدار وشودّا نات ومالافي، مستمدا بعضها من تقليد هافيلي الموسيقي في شمال راجستان الذي نشأ فيه.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} ولم يسمح قط بتسجيل صوته خشية على أسلوبه، وصارت حكاية تلميذته دوندوتاي كولكارني، المنقولة عبر ابنه الأصغر بورجي خان، موضوع رواية ناميتا ديڤيدايال «غرفة الموسيقى» (2007).{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} وظهرت سيرته الذاتية، كما رواها لحفيده عزيز الدين خان، مترجمة إلى الإنجليزية بعنوان «حياتي» (كلكتا، 2000).{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الوفاة",
     "markdown": "توفي الله ديا خان في بومباي في 16 مارس 1946.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-alladiya-khan}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and training",
     "markdown": "He was born on 10 August 1855 at Uniara, a small village in Tonk then under Jaipur State, to a Shia Muslim family of musicians; the family traced its history to the Gaud Brahmins of the Shandilya gotra, having converted to Islam during the Mughal era.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} His father Ahmed Khan died early, and his uncle Jehangir, of Jaipur, taught him dhrupad for five years and then khayal for another eight; he practised palta exercises for six hours daily well into his fifties.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Career",
     "markdown": "Khan served at the courts of various kings of Rajasthan and toured Bihar, Patna, Allahabad, Nepal and Baroda to perform for kings in the early part of his life.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} In his late thirties, overextending his voice at a patron's request, he lost it for nearly two years; the limitations of the voice he recovered are said to have led to the conception of what became the Jaipur-Atrauli gayaki.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} From 1895 to 1922 he was settled at Kolhapur as court musician to Shahu Maharaj, and in 1922, after the king's death, he moved to Mumbai, where he taught many disciples and sang in mehfils until his death.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Music and legacy",
     "markdown": "He was acknowledged for creating and resurrecting many complex ragas — among them Nat Kamod, Bhoop Nat, Kaunsi Kanada, Sampoorna Malkauns, Basanti Kedar, Shuddha Nat and Malavi — drawing several from the Haveli sangeet tradition of northern Rajasthan in which he had grown up.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} He never allowed his voice to be recorded, fearing for his style; the story of his disciple Dhondutai Kulkarni, transmitted through his youngest son Bhurji Khan, became the subject of Namita Devidayal's novel *The Music Room* (2007).{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} His autobiography, narrated to his grandson Azizuddin Khan, appeared in English translation as *My Life* (Thema, Kolkata, 2000).{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} An annual Ustad Alladiya Khan Music Festival is held in Mumbai and Dharwad in his honour.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Death",
     "markdown": "Alladiya Khan died in Bombay on 16 March 1946.{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}"
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     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-alladiya-khan}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تعلیم",
     "markdown": "وہ 10 اگست 1855ء کو ریاست جے پور کے تحت ٹونک کے قصبہ انیارا میں ایک شیعہ مسلم موسیقار گھرانے میں پیدا ہوئے؛ خاندان کی جڑیں شا نڈلیا گوتر کے گوڑ برہمنوں سے ملتی تھیں جو مغل عہد میں مسلمان ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} والد احمد خان کے جلد انتقال کے بعد چچا جہانگیر خان نے انھیں پانچ سال دھرپد اور آٹھ سال خیال کی تعلیم دی، اور وہ پچاس کی دہائی کی عمر تک روزانہ چھ گھنٹے پلٹا کی مشق کرتے رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "فنی سفر",
     "markdown": "وہ راجستھان کے مختلف بادشاہوں کے درباروں سے وابستہ رہے اور اپنی ابتدائی زندگی میں بہار، پٹنہ، الہ آباد، نیپال اور بڑودہ میں محافل کیں۔{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} ایک سرپرست کے کہنے پر آواز پر حد سے زیادہ زور دینے سے ان کی آواز لگ بھگ دو سال کے لیے جاتی رہی، اور کہا جاتا ہے کہ بحال شدہ آواز کی حدود ہی سے جے پور-اتراؤلی گائیکی کی صورت نکلی۔{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en} وہ 1895ء سے 1922ء تک کولہاپور میں شاہو مہاراج کے درباری گلوکار رہے، پھر 1922ء میں بمبئی منتقل ہو گئے جہاں وفات تک پڑھاتے اور محفلوں میں گاتے رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "وفات",
     "markdown": "اللہ دیا خان کا انتقال 16 مارچ 1946ء کو بمبئی میں ہوا۔{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مصادر",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-alladiya-khan-ur}\n- {cite:wikidata-alladiya-khan}"
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