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Mirza Khaleel Ahmad Beg is a prominent linguist of Urdu, hailing from Lucknow. Graduated from Jamia Aligarh. Author of several books. Born in Gorakhpur. Completed primary education from here too. He received his Ph.D. degree from Aligarh University. He also served as the head of the Linguistics Department in the same university. In 1994, he started an academic trip to America and entered the Department of Linguistics at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville). He returned to India in 1996 and wrote a book on sociolinguistics.