Mir Abdul Hussain Sangi Talpur ( sd, مير عبدالحسين سانگي ٽالپر), was a Sindhi language poet, prose and novel writer during the

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. He was born in

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. His father Mir Abbas Ali Talpur was held in jail; his father married an English lady; Mir Abdul was born from this union in 1851. In childhood he stayed there but when young Mir Abdul was six years old his father died in Calcatta, and he started living with his paternal uncle Mir Hussan Ali Khan Talpur; in 1863 he arrived in Sindh with his uncle.

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{{Reflist Sindhi-language writers Sindhi-language poets People from the Bengal Presidency Poets from British India 19th-century Indian poets Writers from Kolkata 1851 births 1924 deaths