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South Asian historians and biographers

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A. R. Venkatachalapathy

A. R. Venkatachalapathy (ஆ.இரா. வேங்கடாசலபதி) is an Indian historian and Tamil writer, a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in Chennai known for research on Tamil print culture.

Abdul Wahid Aresar

Abdul Wahid Aresar (عبدالواحد آريسر; 1949–2015) was a Sindhi nationalist politician, historian, and writer who led the Jeay Sindh Mahaz and chaired one Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz faction.

Bhudev Mukhopadhyay

Bhudev Mukhopadhyay (ভূদেব মুখোপাধ্যায়, 1827–1894) was a Bengali essayist and historian who helped establish the essay as a genre in Bengali and rose to Director of Public Instructions in British India.

Dinesh Chandra Sen

Dinesh Chandra Sen (দীনেশচন্দ্র সেন; 1866–1939) was a Bengali educator and historian of Bengali literature at the University of Calcutta who pioneered collecting Bengali folk ballads, including Maimansingha Gitika.

Ghulam Rasul Mehr

Ghulam Rasul Mehr, also written Ghulam Rasool Mehr (مولانا غلام رسول مہر), was an Urdu and Persian scholar, journalist, and historian in Lahore who died there in 1971.

P. K. Parameswaran Nair

P. K. Parameswaran Nair (1903–1988) was a Malayalam literary historian, critic, and biographer whose Malayala Sahitya Charitram, written for the Sahitya Akademi, became the standard one-volume history of Malayalam literature.

Pir Husamuddin Rashdi

Pir Husamuddin Rashdi (پير حسام الدين راشدي), 1911 to 1982, was a Pakistani historian, biographer, and journalist who edited Persian manuscripts on Sindh's history into Sindhi and Urdu.

Shah Muhammad Marri

Shah Muhammad Marri (شاہ محمد مری) is a Pakistani Baloch scholar and historian at the University of Balochistan who has written over 100 Balochi books on Balochistan's history.

Sukumar Sen

Sukumar Sen (সুকুমার সেন; 1900–1992) was an Indian linguist and historian of Bengali literature at the University of Calcutta, known for his History of Bengali Literature and a two-volume etymological dictionary of Bengali.

Yaadgar-e-Ghalib

Yaadgar-e-Ghalib (یادگارِ غالب) is an 1897 Urdu biography of the poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, written by his friend Khwaja Altaf Hussain Hali and the first about him.