Shamsul Ulma Mirza Kalich Beb is a prolific writer and a born genius who occupies a very significant place in the history of Sindhi literature. He had great proficiency not only in his own language but in Persian, Turkish Arabic, English, Hindi and other Indian languages. He was very hard working, during the thirty years of Government service in spite of arduous duties, he did keep reading and writing up as much as he possibly could. He had a valuable and precious collection of books. After retirement, he devoted all his time and energy to reading, writing and publishing his books. Soon he began to be considered as a great writer and a poet of no mean order. He in all, wrote about 450 books, most of them are in Sindhi, some in English, Persian, Arabic and Urdu too, out of these many have been published but majority of books still remain in manuscript form.

Mirza Kalich Beg, in his zeal for literary composition, did proceed to translate any book which attracted him, even so little. He would give his time and energy equally to the translation of such books in English as Basket to flowers, Sanford and Merton, Three Homes, Sherlock Holmes Stories, from poverty to power, as for the translation of English classics like Gulliver’s Travels, Robertson Crusoe or the renderings in Sindhi, of Lamb’s Al-Ghazali’s Kimiai Sadat he died his best. The thing that may be said in favour of Mirza Kalich Beb’s grand sale and indiscriminate translation of standard works and ephemeral publications, alike, is that he was feeding famished people, with what ever pabulum he could lay his hands upon. He was able to convey in his translation the terseness, worldly wisdom, and appositeness of the original author without using archaic or elaborate or unfamiliar words and phrases, and he provided for subsequent authors the terminology to be used in abstract writings of a non-religious kind.

Indeed, the interests of Mirza Kalich Beg were wide and varied. His speciality as a writer of prose was that he wrote like a gentleman and like a scholar at the same time, he could be read with delight by the youngsters as well as by the highly educated people. It was due to his literary services that he was given the title of “Shamsul Ulma” in 1905.