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| name = Lutfullah Khan<br>'''لطف الله خان'''
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| birth_place = [[Madras]] ([[British India]])
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| death_place = [[Karachi]], Pakistan
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| known_for = Voice Collection Archives
| occupation = archivist, writer
| awards = [[Pride of Performance]] Award in 2012<ref name="Dawn"/>
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'''Lutfullah Khan''' ([[Urdu]] '''لطف الله خان''') (25 November 1916 – 3 March 2012) was an author, [[Collecting|collector]], [[archivist]], and [[hobbyist]] from [[Pakistan]]. He was best known for his rare collection of [[voice recording]]s of renowned artists, poets, writers and other eminent individuals from [[Pakistan]] and South Asia.<ref name="Dawn">[http://www.dawn.com/news/699950/renowned-archivist-lutfullah-khan-passes-away, Renowned archivist Lutfullah Khan passes away], Dawn newspaper, Published 3 March 2012, Retrieved 31 August 2019</ref>

==Early life==

Lutfullah Khan was born in [[Madras]], now called [[Chennai]] in ([[British India]]) on 25 November 1916.<ref name="Dawn"/><ref name="TheNews">[https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/350543-glowing-tributes-paid--to-lutfullah-khan Glowing tributes paid to Lutfullah Khan], The News International newspaper, Published 10 March 2012, Retrieved 5 July 2017</ref> His father worked for the [[South Indian Railway Company]]. Lutfullah gained his basic education in [[Madras]] but moved to [[Hyderabad, India|Hyderabad]] in search of work when he was still a teenager. In 1938, he moved to [[Bombay]] to work for the rationing department in [[British India]]. He migrated to [[Pakistan]] on 17 October 1947, after the [[Partition of India|independence]] of [[Pakistan]], and settled in [[Karachi]] where he joined the advertising business and remained in this profession for more than 50 years.<ref name="Dawn"/><ref name="tribune1">{{cite web|last=Masood |first=Tooba |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/345123/lutfullah-khan-master-archivist-of-the-subcontinents-music-passes-away-at-95/ |title=Lutfullah Khan, master archivist of the subcontinent's music, passes away at 95 – The Express Tribune |publisher=The Express Tribune newspaper |date=4 March 2012|access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref>

== Music career ==
Lutfullah Khan signed an agreement in 1933 for classical singing with the [[Indian Broadcasting Service]].<ref name="tripod">{{cite web|url=http://members.tripod.com/oldies_club/lutfullah_khan.htm |title=Lutfullah Khan 'Biography' |publisher=tripod.com website |access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref> He performed publicly at the age of 19 in 1935, when he performed in a two-hour radio concert in [[Madras]] and played [[Karnatic music]].<ref name="tribune1"/> Known as Madras Radio Artist, he sang [[Ghazals]] at a function of Muslim Students Association of [[St. Xavier's College, Mumbai|St. Xaviers College]] in January 1939 and rendered classical singing in Bombay in December the same year. Between 1963 and 1988, he practised singing with Abdul Shakoor Khan of [[Kirana gharana]], and explored the intricacies of only one raag, the [[Darbari Kanada|Darbari]].<ref name="tripod"/>

== Voice collection ==
Luftullah was known for his unique collection of voice recordings. In 1951,<ref>[http://www.dawn.com/news/631637/children-learn-ways-to-preserve-historical-records, Children learn ways to preserve historical records], Dawn newspaper, Published 25 May 2011, Retrieved 31 August 2019</ref> when he started his [[advertising agency]], one of his clients imported a ''Sound Mirror'' audio tape recorder. Lutfullhah bought the machine and 22 tapes for [[Pakistani rupee]] 1,146 and 10 annas (the machine and the receipt forms a part of his collection). He performed his first sound recording, which was the voice of his mother, on 29 July 1951. Later, he started recording radio programs for drama, music, poetry, prose, fine arts, religion and education. He went on collecting voices of notable personalities, especially speeches of political leaders and politicians, and narrations of authors' own works. He maintained a minutely detailed catalogue for all the tapes on different subjects.<ref name="tripod"/> In its obituary, ''[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]'' remarked, "It was a testimony to his zeal for the arts that artists and men of letters loved to visit his studio for recording sessions."<ref name="Dawn"/>

In music, his collection is organised into many subcategories:<ref name="tripod"/>

* [[Instrumental Music]] that includes [[Sarod]] (notably [[Hafiz Ali Khan]] and [[Ali Akbar Khan]]), [[Sitar]] (notably [[Enayat Khan]], [[Vilayat Khan]], [[Ravi Shankar]] and [[Sharif Khan Poonchwaley]]), [[Shehnai]] (notably [[Bismillah Khan]]), [[Flute]] (notably Panna Lah Ghosh), Tabla (notably [[Ahmed Jan Thirakwa]], [[Alla Rakha]]) and [[Sarangi]] (notably [[Bundu Khan]])
* Classical Music that includes notably [[Bade Ghulam Ali Khan]], Fayyaz Hussain Khan, Moizuddin Khan, Chand Khan, Zakir Brothers and so on.
* [[Semi-classical music]] that includes [[Thumri]], Pahari, [[Dadra]], [[Kafi]], [[Bhajan]] etc.
* [[Ghazals]] including notably [[Begum Akhtar]], [[Sehgal]], [[Shamshad Begum]], Rauf Dakkani, Mukhtar Begum, Mushtri Bai, '''Salamat Ali Khan''', [[Amanat Ali Khan]], and [[Roshan Ara Begum]] etc. It also includes 318 ghazals of [[Mehdi Hassan]].
* [[Folk music of Pakistan|Folk music]]
* [[Qawali]]
* songs from other genres

The [[Urdu literature]] section is divided into poetry and prose. Poetry contains the work of 800 poets. [[Faiz Ahmad Faiz]] and [[Akhtar ul Iman]] recorded their entire work for his library. Some of the other names are [[Jagan Nath Azad]], [[Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum]], [[Parveen Shakir]], [[Josh Malihabadi]], [[Jigar Moradabadi]], Khatir Ghaznavi, [[Ali Sardar Jafri]], [[Kaifi Azmi]], [[Ahmad Faraz]], [[Ismat Chughtai]], [[Noon Meem Rashid]], [[Z.A. Bukhari]] and others.<ref name="Dawn2"/> Prose contains such items as Aal Ahmed Suroor, [[Ibrahim Jalees]], [[Patras Bokhari]], [[Imtiaz Ali Taj]], Hayat ullah Ansari, [[Rajinder Singh Bedi]], Joginder Paal, [[Chiragh Hasan Hasrat]], Anwar Sadid, [[Khadija Mastoor]], [[Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi]], Zakir Hussain and many more.

The scholars and speeches sections include names like [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], [[Liaqat Ali Khan]], [[Gandhi]], A.K. Barohi, Sir [[Muhammad Zafarullah Khan]], [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]], Dr. [[Salimuzzaman Siddiqui]], Karrah Hussain, [[Bahadur Yar Jung]], [[Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani]], [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], [[Rajendra Prasad]].

The religion section includes notably Syed Mohammad Razi, [[Zaheen Shah Taji]], [[Mufti Muhammad Shafi]], [[Allamah Rasheed Turabi]] etc. This also includes an [[exegesis]] of [[Quran]] in the voice of Ehtishamul Haq Thanvi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/entertainment/2012/03/120302_lutfullah_khan_dies_zs.shtml |title=BBC Urdu – فن فنکار – لطف اللہ خان انتقال کر گئے |publisher=BBC.co.uk website |date=3 March 2012|access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref>

The smaller but a unique section consists of interviews of artists like [[Jimmy Engineer]], Sir Iqbal Geoffrey, [[Eqbal Mehdi|Iqbal Mehdi]], [[Bashir Mirza]], [[Sadequain]], Shakir Mirza etc.

The story of this journey is penned in ''Tamashay-e-Ahal-e-Zauq'' that provides insights in efforts that were put to record them. Especially the struggle to record [[Faiz Ahmad Faiz|Faiz]] that is spread over time period of 20 years.

In his last years, he was digitising his audio library by transferring tapes on DVDs and computerising the catalogue.

== Photography and filming ==
Luftullah was also an avid photographer. While in [[Bombay]], he used to borrow a [[16mm film|16mm]] Kodak movie camera from a friend to make movies at different locations. While in [[Karachi]], he used to borrow a [[Rolleiflex]] camera from a friend who owned the Thackersons photography shop. He created albums of the city's old buildings and new build-ups that were taking shape to absorb the new country [[Pakistan]] and its administration. He made an album about ''Business on footpath'' covering portable shops on Karachi's footpaths, right from small businesses to [[snake charmers]], palmists, lizard show, ear cleaner etc. There was another album called ''Business on wheels'' which shows fruit, vegetable, cloth, shoe etc. merchants of Karachi on four wheel carts. In 1951, he bought a Swiss made Boulex Pylord [[16mm film|16mm]] camera and started making documentaries.

One memorable documentary was about a cricket match between the [[Pakistani]] Prime minister, his cabinet and the parliament members at the [[Karachi Gymkhana]].<ref name="NewAgeIslam"/> One side was led by [[Mohammad Ali Bogra]] and the other by [[Maulvi Tamizuddin Khan]]. The minister Mr. Chittophadia was bowling in his [[dhoti]] and Tamizuddin was batting in his [[sherwani]], [[New Age Islam]] reported.<ref name="NewAgeIslam">{{cite web|url=http://newageislam.com/islamic-culture/lutfullah-khan-and-his-alam-e-junoon/d/2696 |title=Lutfullah Khan and His Alam-e-Junoon, Islamic Culture, Ayaz AbdalPhoto: Lutfullah Khan, New Age Islam |publisher=Newageislam.com |date=14 April 2010 |access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref>

== Other collections ==
His personal gallery displays rare photographs, photography equipment, sound recording equipment and accessories, drawing instrument and stationary items used in documenting the collections, International and Pakistani coins, stamps and matchboxes.<ref name="Dawn2">[http://www.dawn.com/news/402555/karachi-lutfullah-praised-for-his-collections, Lutfullah Khan praised for his collections], Dawn newspaper, published 5 November 2001, Retrieved 31 August 2019</ref>

A notable album in the collection of old [[Hindi cinema|Hindi]] and [[Hollywood movie|Hollywood]] movies posters, some of them dating back to twenties.

He has also transcribed all the [[Urdu]] [[Ghazals]] of [[Mirza Ghalib]] into [[Latin script]].

== Literary works ==
Lutfullah authored a number of books in [[Urdu]]. Some of his works include ''Pehlu'' (1941), ''Bachpan ke Waqqaiyat'' (1991), ''Tamashay-e-Ahl-e-Qalam'' (1996), ''Sur Ki Talaash'' (1997), ''Hijraton Ke Silsile'' (an autobiography) (1998) and ''Zindagi Ik Safar'' (2000).<ref name="Dawn"/>

== Legacy and awards ==
* Luftullah's biggest legacy is his tremendous collection of audio recordings. It is the biggest personal collection of distinct audios in the country, second biggest collection after [[Radio Pakistan]] archive, and one of the rarest collection of voices of the notable people of South Asia.
* His autobiography ''Hijraton Ke Silsile'' won the Prime Minister's award in 1998.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.radio.gov.pk/Urdu/newsdetail-10709 |title=Radio Pakistan-مرحوم محمد لطف اللہ خان جو آج ہم میں نہیں مگر انہیں ہمیش |publisher=Radio.gov.pk |date=5 March 2012 |access-date=12 March 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306014530/http://www.radio.gov.pk/Urdu/newsdetail-10709 |archive-date=6 March 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
* '''Kamal-e-Fun Award''' (Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature) from the [[Pakistan Academy of Letters]] in 2009.<ref>[https://www.dawn.com/news/578056 Kamal-e-Fun Award given to Lutfullah Khan], Dawn newspaper, Published 3 November 2010, Retrieved 31 August 2019</ref>
* [[Arts Council of Pakistan]], Karachi has named its audio-visual library as ''Lutfullah Khan Audio-Visual Library''.<ref name="TheNews"/>
* [[Pride of Performance]] Award from the [[President of Pakistan]] in 2012 for his services to Pakistan.<ref name="Dawn"/>
* He was the 'guest of honor' on one episode of [[Geo News]] TV show ''Junoon-E-Gumgashta'' in 2011 hosted by [[Sania Saeed]] featuring his archival collections and his personal comments about them.
* Famous [[Pakistani television]] personality [[Anwar Maqsood Hameedi]] who was reportedly his friend for over 40 years, said after his death in 2012, that Lutfullah Khan protected and guarded his collection very diligently and "did not hand over his stuff to anyone else."<ref name="Dawn"/> Well-known poet [[Iftikhar Arif]] said, "If this nation is not able to preserve his collection, it will be a huge misfortune, because I’ve seen treasure troves being destroyed at radio and TV offices."<ref name="Dawn"/>
* [[Pakistan Post|Pakistan Post Office]] issued a commemorative postage stamp to recognize his services in its 'The Archivist' series in 2012<ref>[https://paknetmag.blogspot.com/search?q=Ahmed+Ali+ Lutfullah Khan commemorative postage stamp and profile on paknetmag.com website (scroll down to read it)] Published 19 January 2013, Retrieved 31 August 2019</ref>

== Death ==
Lutfullah Khan died on 3 March 2012 in [[Karachi]] at the age of 95. He is survived by a wife, two sons and three daughters.<ref name="Dawn"/>

== External links ==
* [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLByUJ_VbMxwGwrg_pP113y_Cl7BHEszXW Audio Archives - YouTube Playlist]

==References==
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{{Pride of Performance for Arts}}

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	In music, his collection is organised into many subcategories:<ref name="tripod"/>		In music, his collection is organised into many subcategories:<ref name="tripod"/>

	* [[Instrumental Music]] that includes [[Sarod]] (notably [[Hafiz Ali Khan]] and [[Ali Akbar Khan]]), [[Sitar]] (notably [[Enayat Khan]], [[Vilayat Khan]], [[Ravi Shankar]] and [[Sharif Khan Poonchwaley]]), [[Shehnai]] (notably [[Bismillah Khan]]), [[Flute]] (notably ~~Panna Lah~~ Ghosh), Tabla (notably [[Ahmed Jan Thirakwa]], [[Alla Rakha]]) and [[Sarangi]] (notably [[Bundu Khan]])		* [[Instrumental Music]] that includes [[Sarod]] (notably [[Hafiz Ali Khan]] and [[Ali Akbar Khan]]), [[Sitar]] (notably [[Enayat Khan]], [[Vilayat Khan]], [[Ravi Shankar]] and [[Sharif Khan Poonchwaley]]), [[Shehnai]] (notably [[Bismillah Khan]]), [[Flute]] (notably [[Pannalal Ghosh]]), Tabla (notably [[Ahmed Jan Thirakwa]], [[Alla Rakha]]) and [[Sarangi]] (notably [[Bundu Khan]])
	* Classical Music that includes notably [[Bade Ghulam Ali Khan]], Fayyaz Hussain Khan, Moizuddin Khan, Chand Khan, Zakir Brothers and so on.		* Classical Music that includes notably [[Bade Ghulam Ali Khan]], Fayyaz Hussain Khan, Moizuddin Khan, Chand Khan, Zakir Brothers and so on.
	* [[Semi-classical music]] that includes [[Thumri]], Pahari, [[Dadra]], [[Kafi]], [[Bhajan]] etc.		* [[Semi-classical music]] that includes [[Thumri]], Pahari, [[Dadra]], [[Kafi]], [[Bhajan]] etc.
	* [[Ghazals]] including notably [[Begum Akhtar]], [[Sehgal]], [[Shamshad Begum]], Rauf Dakkani, Mukhtar Begum, Mushtri Bai, ~~'''~~Salamat Ali Khan~~'''~~, [[Amanat Ali Khan]], and [[Roshan Ara Begum]] etc. It also includes 318 ghazals of [[Mehdi Hassan]].		* [[Ghazals]] including notably [[Begum Akhtar]], [[Sehgal]], [[Shamshad Begum]], Rauf Dakkani, Mukhtar Begum, Mushtri Bai, [[Salamat Ali Khan]], [[Amanat Ali Khan]], and [[Roshan Ara Begum]] etc. It also includes 318 ghazals of [[Mehdi Hassan]].
	* [[Folk music of Pakistan\|Folk music]]		* [[Folk music of Pakistan\|Folk music]]
	* [[Qawali]]		* [[Qawali]]
	* songs from other genres		* songs from other genres

	The [[Urdu literature]] section is divided into poetry and prose. Poetry contains the work of 800 poets. [[Faiz Ahmad Faiz]] and [[Akhtar ul Iman]] recorded their entire work for his library. Some of the other names are [[Jagan Nath Azad]], [[Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum]], [[Parveen Shakir]], [[Josh Malihabadi]], [[Jigar Moradabadi]], Khatir Ghaznavi, [[Ali Sardar Jafri]], [[Kaifi Azmi]], [[Ahmad Faraz]], [[Ismat Chughtai]], [[Noon Meem Rashid]], [[Z.A. Bukhari]] and others.<ref name="Dawn2"/> Prose contains such items as ~~Aal Ahmed~~ Suroor, [[Ibrahim Jalees]], [[Patras Bokhari]], [[Imtiaz Ali Taj]], ~~Hayat ullah~~ Ansari, [[Rajinder Singh Bedi]], Joginder Paal, [[Chiragh Hasan Hasrat]], Anwar Sadid, [[Khadija Mastoor]], [[Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi]], Zakir Hussain and many more.		The [[Urdu literature]] section is divided into poetry and prose. Poetry contains the work of 800 poets. [[Faiz Ahmad Faiz]] and [[Akhtar ul Iman]] recorded their entire work for his library. Some of the other names are [[Jagan Nath Azad]], [[Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum]], [[Parveen Shakir]], [[Josh Malihabadi]], [[Jigar Moradabadi]], [[Khatir Ghaznavi]], [[Ali Sardar Jafri]], [[Kaifi Azmi]], [[Ahmad Faraz]], [[Ismat Chughtai]], [[Noon Meem Rashid]], [[Z.A. Bukhari]] and others.<ref name="Dawn2"/> Prose contains such items as [[Ale Ahmad Suroor]], [[Ibrahim Jalees]], [[Patras Bokhari]], [[Imtiaz Ali Taj]], [[Hayatullah Ansari]], [[Rajinder Singh Bedi]], Joginder Paal, [[Chiragh Hasan Hasrat]], Anwar Sadid, [[Khadija Mastoor]], [[Rasheed Ahmad Siddiqi]], Zakir Hussain and many more.

	The scholars and speeches sections include names like [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], [[Liaqat Ali Khan]], [[Gandhi]], A.K. ~~Barohi~~, Sir [[Muhammad Zafarullah Khan]], [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]], Dr. [[Salimuzzaman Siddiqui]], Karrah Hussain, [[Bahadur Yar Jung]], [[Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani]], [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], [[Rajendra Prasad]].		The scholars and speeches sections include names like [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]], [[Liaqat Ali Khan]], [[Gandhi]], [[A. K. Brohi]], Sir [[Muhammad Zafarullah Khan]], [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]], Dr. [[Salimuzzaman Siddiqui]], Karrah Hussain, [[Bahadur Yar Jung]], [[Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani]], [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], [[Rajendra Prasad]].

	The religion section includes notably Syed Mohammad Razi, [[Zaheen Shah Taji]], [[Mufti Muhammad Shafi]], [[Allamah Rasheed Turabi]] etc. This also includes an [[exegesis]] of [[Quran]] in the voice of ~~Ehtishamul~~ Haq Thanvi.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/entertainment/2012/03/120302_lutfullah_khan_dies_zs.shtml \|title=BBC Urdu – فن فنکار – لطف اللہ خان انتقال کر گئے \|publisher=BBC.co.uk website \|date=3 March 2012\|access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref>		The religion section includes notably Syed Mohammad Razi, [[Zaheen Shah Taji]], [[Mufti Muhammad Shafi]], [[Allamah Rasheed Turabi]] etc. This also includes an [[exegesis]] of [[Quran]] in the voice of [[Ehtisham ul Haq Thanvi]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/entertainment/2012/03/120302_lutfullah_khan_dies_zs.shtml \|title=BBC Urdu – فن فنکار – لطف اللہ خان انتقال کر گئے \|publisher=BBC.co.uk website \|date=3 March 2012\|access-date=31 August 2019}}</ref>

	The smaller but a unique section consists of interviews of artists like [[Jimmy Engineer]], ~~Sir~~ Iqbal Geoffrey, [[Eqbal Mehdi\|Iqbal Mehdi]], [[Bashir Mirza]], [[Sadequain]], Shakir Mirza etc.		The smaller but a unique section consists of interviews of artists like [[Jimmy Engineer]], [[Iqbal Geoffrey]], [[Eqbal Mehdi\|Iqbal Mehdi]], [[Bashir Mirza]], [[Sadequain]], Shakir Mirza etc.

	The story of this journey is penned in ''Tamashay-e-Ahal-e-Zauq'' that provides insights in efforts that were put to record them. Especially the struggle to record [[Faiz Ahmad Faiz\|Faiz]] that is spread over time period of 20 years.		The story of this journey is penned in ''Tamashay-e-Ahal-e-Zauq'' that provides insights in efforts that were put to record them. Especially the struggle to record [[Faiz Ahmad Faiz\|Faiz]] that is spread over time period of 20 years.