The `Das Avatara' of Pir Shams as Linguistic and Literacy Evidence of the Early Development of Ismailism in Sind

Also published in Sind through the Centuries ; Dr Gulshan Khakee died of cancer in Bombay at the age of 58, Saturday January 12, 2002. She graduated in teacher training in Nairobi where she taught at the AK Girl School and at the Kenya High School. She did her M.A. at Trinity College in Dublin - Ireland and her PhD. at Harvard in 1972. She was among the pioniers of Ginanic research and some of her works are listed here. DETAILS: "The `Das Avatara' of Pir Shams as Linguistic and Literacy Evidence of the Early Development of Ismailism in Sind," Sind Quarterly VIII, no. 2 (1980): 44-47. Also published in Sind through the Centuries, ed. Hamida Khuhro. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. 143-155.