P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Pulodova, Sharafbonu

Tajik philologist and Orientalist-Indianist Sharafbonu Pulodova was

born on January 2, 1933, in Khujand into a family of scholars. She re-

ceived her early education in Tajiki schools.

Pulodova graduated from the Khujand Pedagogical School in 1955

with a degree in Philology. Then she began teaching in the Department

of Languages and Literatures of the same institute, first as a Lecturer

(1955-56), and later, as a teacher (1956-58). Between 1958 and 1962,

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she was a post-graduate student at the Orientalist Research Center of the

Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, division of philology. In

1963, she defended her thesis, entitled The Importance of the Works of

Mirza Gholib in the Formation of Contemporary Urdu Prose. Between

1961 and 1993, she worked at the Orientalist Institute of the Academy

of Sciences of Tajikistan as a Junior, and later, Senior Scientific

Worker, dealing with Indo-Pakistani relations. From 1993 to 2000, she

worked at the World Economy Research Center, dealing with the inter-

national relations of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. After the

establishment of the Oriental Institute and Written Heritage at the

Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan, she moved to the new institute.

Pulodova's contributions include Maktubhoi Urdii Mirzo Gholib

(Mirza Ghalib's Urdu Letters, 1966); Bo Rohi Dusti (In Friendship's

Path, 1991); and Kullioti Nazmi Forsizaboni Muhammad Iqbol (Col-

lected Persian Poems of Muhammad Iqbal, 1997). She has traveled to

India, Pakistan, Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Afghanistan,

among others.

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