Personal narrative of Mr. Sahngi's son

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This is a personal narrative by the son of Sahngi. Sahngi and Mahngi were two brothers who worked on the farms of Sadruddin, Maaz’s great grandfather. Mr. Toofani first introduces Maaz to Mr. Sahngi’s son and his relative and then leaves for work. Mr. Sahngi’s son narrates some incidences of Sadruddin and his contesting of the Pardhānī (village head) elections. He then talks about Maaz’s family members and his relationship with them. After that, he narrates his early adulthood time spent in Delhi, old times in Sonwārā village, and changing times.

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Shaikh, Maaz November 25, 2020.

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This audio recording is part of the collection entitled: Bhojpuri Language Resource and was provided by the UNT College of Information to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 135 times. More information about this recording can be viewed below.

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  • Main Title: Personal narrative of Mr. Sahngi's son
  • Parallel Title: ساہْنگی جی كے بیٹے كی ذاتی روایت
  • Parallel Title: साहङी के बेटे की व्यक्तिगत कथा
  • Series Title: Maaz Shaikh Collection

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This is a personal narrative by the son of Sahngi. Sahngi and Mahngi were two brothers who worked on the farms of Sadruddin, Maaz’s great grandfather. Mr. Toofani first introduces Maaz to Mr. Sahngi’s son and his relative and then leaves for work. Mr. Sahngi’s son narrates some incidences of Sadruddin and his contesting of the Pardhānī (village head) elections. He then talks about Maaz’s family members and his relationship with them. After that, he narrates his early adulthood time spent in Delhi, old times in Sonwārā village, and changing times.

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Bhojpuri Language Resource

This collection currently includes audio and video recordings of texts; transcriptions, translations, interlinear glossing, and analyses of selected texts and photographs documenting fieldwork and other events. The texts collected by Maaz Shaikh starting from early 2020 are an outcome of his fieldwork on the Azamgarhi language of Azamgarh while working on his Master of Philosophy dissertation at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

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Computational Resource on South Asian Languages

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This is a personal narrative by the son of Sahngi. Sahngi and Mahngi were two brothers who worked on the farms of Sadruddin, Maaz’s great grandfather. Mr. Toofani first introduces Maaz to Mr. Sahngi’s son and his relative and then leaves for work. Mr. Sahngi’s son narrates some incidences of Sadruddin and his contesting of the Pardhānī (village head) elections. He then talks about Maaz’s family members and his relationship with them. After that, he narrates his early adulthood time spent in Delhi, old times in Sonwārā village, and changing times.

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Video recording of a personal narrative of the son of Mr. Sahngi; ark:/67531/metadc1781712

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  • November 25, 2020

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  • April 14, 2021, 8:16 p.m.

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Shaikh, Maaz. Personal narrative of Mr. Sahngi's son, audio recording, November 25, 2020; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1781711/: accessed June 16, 2026), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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