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Salim Ali

سالم علي

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Indian ornithologist and naturalist, known as the Birdman of India: the first Indian to conduct systematic bird surveys across India, a key figure behind the Bombay Natural History Society after 1947, and co-author with S. Dillon Ripley of the ten-volume Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan; he received the Padma Bhushan (1958) and the Padma Vibhushan (1976).

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Roles
ornithologist · naturalist · writer
Region
South Asia
Identifiers
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Life in time

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The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Hassanein Muhammad Makhlouf · Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan · Mohammad Ali Araki · Uzair Gul Peshawari · Tawfiq al-Hakim

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    In the Modern Islam Browser

    Modern Islam BrowserFigures of the last fifty years1987

    Sources

    • Salim Ali — English Wikipedia
    • Salim Ali — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Salim Ali — Wikidata
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    islam.museum contributors. “Salim Ali”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/salim-ali/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-06.

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