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Fani Badayuni
BornShaukat Ali Khan
1879
Badaun, North-Western Provinces, British India
Died27 August 1961
(aged 81-82)
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
OccupationUrdu poet, lawyer
NationalityIndian
Alma materAligarh Muslim University
GenreGhazal, Nazm

Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 - 27 August 1941), better known as Fani Badayuni (his takhallus), was an Indian Urdu poet.[1][2]

Early life

He was schooled at Government High School and graduated from Bareilly College in 1901, studied law at Aligarh Muslim University, earning L.L.B. degree in 1906.[3]

Career

Badayuni started composing poetry around twenty years of age.[4]

In Hyderabad

Fani migrated to Hyderabad, India after the Nizam's diwan Maharaja Kishan Prasad 'Shad', an Urdu lover and poet, got Fani appointed in the department of education.[5]

Bibliography

His first collection of poems was published in 1917 from Badaun by Naqib Press. His other published works are:

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References

  1. ^ "Delhi's own muse and more". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 2 October 2003. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  2. ^ the second most celebrated son of the sleepy Awadh town
  3. ^ IANS (6 December 2015). "Life as a painful predicament, and Urdu's gloomy poet (Column: Bookends)". Business Standard India. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  4. ^ Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2
  5. ^ The Last Nizam By Basant K. Bawa page 59
  6. ^ Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2

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