Chirāgh ʿAlī Khān, Maulvī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Maulvī Chirāgh ʿAlī Khān (1844-95), also known by his honorary title of Aʿẓam Yār Jang, was an Indian modernist author who served in the government of the Muslim-ruled state of Hyderabad from 1877 to 1895. He was born in India's North-Western Provinces to a family of Kashmiri origin serving the East India Company. Following his father's death, when Chirāgh ʿAlī was twelve, his mother and paternal grandmother guided his instruction in Persian and Urdu. Self-taught otherwise, including in English, Chirāgh ʿAlī had a voracious