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 "label": {
  "ar": "بادي غلام علي خان",
  "en": "Bade Ghulam Ali Khan",
  "ur": "بڑے غلام علی خان"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "مغنٍّ كلاسيكي هندي (1902–1968) من غرانة قصور–بتيالا، وُلد في قصور وتدرّب على يد عمّه وأبيه، وذاع صيته بصوت امتد ثلاث طبقات وبأسلوب جمع بين الدروباد وجيبور وغواليور. غنّى أغنيتين لفيلم «مغول الأعظم» (1960) بأجر قياسي، ونال بادما بوشان سنة 1962.",
  "en": "Indian Hindustani classical vocalist (1902–1968) of the Kasur Patiala Gharana, born at Kasur and trained by his uncle and his father. Famous for a voice spanning three octaves and a style fusing Dhrupad, Jaipur and Gwalior elements, he sang two songs for the film Mughal-e-Azam (1960) at a record fee and received the Padma Bhushan in 1962.",
  "ur": "ہندوستانی کلاسیکی گلوکار (1902ء–1968ء) جن کا تعلق قصور پٹیالہ گھرانے سے تھا؛ قصور میں پیدا ہوئے، چچا اور والد سے تربیت پائی۔ تین اوکٹیو پر پھیلی آواز اور دھرپد، جے پور اور گوالیار کے امتزاج سے مشہور ہوئے، فلم «مغلِ اعظم» (1960ء) کے لیے دو گانے ریکارڈ کیے اور 1962ء میں پدم بھوشن پایا۔"
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  "south-asia"
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1902.2477532050625,
  "latest": 1968.3107113766564
 },
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1902-04-02",
   "hijri": "1319",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Urdu articles agree: born 2 April 1902 at Kasur in Punjab, British India. The Hijri year (1319) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Kasur, so no born_in edge is written.",
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  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1968-04-23",
   "hijri": "1388",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The place, Hyderabad, is agreed. The day is split: the English article's text and infobox and the Urdu article's infobox give 23 April 1968, which the record follows, while the Urdu article's lead and the Punjabi article give 25 April. The Hijri year (1388) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Hyderabad, so no died_in edge is written.",
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   {
    "value": "غلام علی خان",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Ghulam Ali Khan",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "بڑے غلام علی خان",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "Bade Ghulam Ali Khan",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "سب رنگ",
    "kind": "pen"
   },
   {
    "value": "Sabrang",
    "kind": "pen"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "musician"
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  "born": {
   "edtf": "1902-04-02",
   "hijri": "1319",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Urdu articles agree: born 2 April 1902 at Kasur in Punjab, British India. The Hijri year (1319) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Kasur, so no born_in edge is written.",
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  "died": {
   "edtf": "1968-04-23",
   "hijri": "1388",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The place, Hyderabad, is agreed. The day is split: the English article's text and infobox and the Urdu article's infobox give 23 April 1968, which the record follows, while the Urdu article's lead and the Punjabi article give 25 April. The Hijri year (1388) is a conversion. No place entity exists for Hyderabad, so no died_in edge is written.",
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  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No consulted text names his religion or any school. The English and Urdu articles give his family, training, career and honours only; his burial at the Daira Mir Momin cemetery in Hyderabad, his name and his family's background are context, never an attestation, and his celebrated singing of bhajans and kafis is repertoire, which never counts. Under the two-source rule the value stays unknown.",
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   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Bade Ghulam Ali Khan' and Urdu Wikipedia 'بڑے غلام علی خان', read on 26 October 2026. The reading route used exposed no revision ids, so the sources are recorded in the consultation-date form and no Wikidata source file or external_ids are asserted. Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (ghulam, bade, sabrang), by Arabic label, by biography and by the Wikidata route across data/person/ — no earlier record exists; the Ghulam Ali of the queue's other line (a living ghazal singer, b. 1940) is a different man and is not this record. 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: Kasur and Hyderabad have no place entities, and his teachers (his father Ali Baksh Khan and his uncle Kale Khan) and his sons have no person records.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والتدريب",
     "markdown": "وُلد في 2 نيسان 1902 في قصور بالبنجاب في الهند البريطانية، في أسرة موسيقية؛ كان أبوه علي بخش خان مغنيا معروفا. بدأ من عمر خمس سنوات يتعلم السارانغي والغناء على يد عمه كالي خان، ثم تدرّب بعد وفاة عمه على يد أبيه.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur}{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} وبدأ مسيرته عازف سارانغي، يعزف في بنارس مرافقا للمغنية هيراباي، قبل أن يشتهر بغنائه.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المسيرة الغنائية",
     "markdown": "جمع أسلوبه بين عناصر الدروباد البهرام خانية والتفافات جيبور وزخارف غواليور في طراز قصور–بتيالا الخاص به، وفضّل عروضا أقصر للراغا ملائمة لجمهوره.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} ولحّن قطعا كثيرة باسم «سبرانغ»، ومن أشهر تسجيلاته «ياد بيا كي آيي» و«آيي نا بالم».{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} وبعد تقسيم 1947 انتقل إلى قصور في باكستان، ثم عاد إلى الهند إقامة دائمة ونال جنسيتها سنة 1957، وعاش في لاهور وبومباي وكلكتا وأخيرا حيدر آباد.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} وعن التقسيم قال إنه لو تُعلّم طفل في كل بيت الموسيقى الكلاسيكية الهندستانية لما قُسّمت الهند أبدا.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}\n\nورغم تردده الطويل في الغناء للأفلام، أُقنع بتسجيل أغنيتين لفيلم «مغول الأعظم» (1960) على راغَي سوهني وراغيشري، وتقاضى — كما يُروى — 25,000 روبية عن الأغنية الواحدة حين كان كبار مغني البلاي باك يتقاضون أقل من 500 روبية.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "الجوائز والوفاة",
     "markdown": "نال جائزة سانغيت ناتاك أكاديمي وبادما بوشان سنة 1962، وصار زميلا للأكاديمية سنة 1967.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} وتوفي في حيدر آباد في 23 نيسان 1968 — وتذكر مقدمة المقال الأردي 25 نيسان — بعد مرض أصابه بشلل جزئي، ودُفن في مقبرة دائرة مير مؤمن في حيدر آباد.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur}"
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  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and training",
     "markdown": "He was born on 2 April 1902 at Kasur in Punjab, British India, into a family of musicians; his father Ali Baksh Khan was a well-known singer.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur} From the age of five he learnt sarangi and singing from his uncle Kale Khan, and after his uncle's death he trained under his father.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur} He began his career as a sarangi player, performing at Banaras alongside the courtesan singer Hirabai, before his singing made him famous.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Singing career",
     "markdown": "His style amalgamated the Behram Khani elements of Dhrupad, the gyrations of Jaipur and the embellishments (behlavas) of Gwalior into his own Kasur Patiala manner, and he favoured shorter raga expositions shaped to his audience.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} He composed many pieces under the pen name **Sabrang**, and his best-known recordings include *Yaad Piya Ki Aaye* and *Aaye Na Balam*.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} After Partition in 1947 he moved to Kasur in Pakistan, but later returned to India permanently, acquiring Indian citizenship in 1957 and living in Lahore, Bombay, Calcutta and finally Hyderabad.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} Of Partition he remarked that if one child in every home had been taught Hindustani classical music, India would never have been partitioned.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}\n\nThough long reluctant to sing for films, he was persuaded to record two songs — *Prem Jogan Ban Ke* and *Shubh Din Aayo Raj Dulara*, on ragas Sohni and Rageshri — for the 1960 film *Mughal-e-Azam*, demanding and receiving a reported ₹25,000 per song when leading playback singers earned under ₹500.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Awards and death",
     "markdown": "He received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and the Padma Bhushan in 1962, and was made a Sangeet Natak Akademi fellow in 1967.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} He died at Hyderabad on 23 April 1968 — the Urdu article's lead gives 25 April — after an illness that had partly paralysed him, and was buried at Daira Mir Momin cemetery in Hyderabad.{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur}"
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     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- {cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}\n- {cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور تربیت",
     "markdown": "وہ 2 اپریل 1902ء کو برطانوی ہند کے پنجاب کے شہر قصور میں ایک موسیقار گھرانے میں پیدا ہوئے؛ ان کے والد علی بخش خان معروف گلوکار تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur}{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} پانچ سال کی عمر میں انھوں نے چچا کالے خان سے سارنگی اور گائیکی سیکھنا شروع کی اور ان کے انتقال کے بعد والد سے تربیت پائی۔{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur} انھوں نے اپنے فن کا آغاز سارنگی نواز کی حیثیت سے کیا اور بنارس میں ہیرابائی کے ساتھ سارنگی بجاتے ہوئے عوام کے سامنے آنے لگے۔{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "گائیکی کا سفر",
     "markdown": "ان کے انداز میں دھرپد کے بہرام خانی عناصر، جے پور کی گردشیں اور گوالیار کے بہلاوے قصور پٹیالہ طرز میں یکجا ہو گئے، اور وہ سامعین کی پسند کے مطابق راگ کی نسبتاً مختصر تشریح کے قائل تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} انھوں نے «سب رنگ» کے قلمی نام سے بہت سی بندشیں بنائیں؛ ان کی مشہور ریکارڈنگز میں «یاد پیا کی آئے» اور «آئے نہ بالم» شامل ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} 1947ء کی تقسیم کے بعد وہ قصور (پاکستان) چلے گئے مگر بعد میں مستقل طور پر ہندوستان لوٹ آئے، 1957ء میں ہندوستانی شہریت حاصل کی اور لاہور، بمبئی، کلکتہ اور آخر میں حیدر آباد میں رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}\n\nفلمی گائیکی سے طویل گریز کے باوجود وہ 1960ء کی فلم «مغلِ اعظم» کے لیے دو گانے ریکارڈ کرنے پر آمادہ ہوئے اور مبینہ طور پر فی گانا 25,000 روپے لیے، جبکہ اس زمانے کے سرکردہ پس پردہ گلوکار 500 روپے سے کم پاتے تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "اعزازات اور وفات",
     "markdown": "انھیں 1962ء میں سنگیت ناٹک اکادمی ایوارڈ اور پدم بھوشن ملا اور 1967ء میں وہ اکادمی کے فیلو بنے۔{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en} وفات 23 اپریل 1968ء کو حیدر آباد میں ہوئی — اردو مضمون کی تمہید 25 اپریل درج کرتی ہے — اور وہ حیدر آباد کے دائرہ میر مومن قبرستان میں دفن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-en}{cite:wikipedia-bade-ghulam-ali-khan-ur}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مآخذ",
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  "person/abdullah-musawi-shirazi",
  "person/abdur-rahman-chughtai",
  "person/ahmad-yar-khan-naimi",
  "person/al-jundi-ali-al-sayyid",
  "person/al-tahir-al-khamiri",
  "person/alauddin-khan",
  "person/allameh-abul-hasan-sharani",
  "person/amadou-hampate-ba"
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