Fani Badayuni Explained

Fani Badayuni
Birth Name:Shaukat Ali Khan
Birth Date:1879
Birth Place:Badaun, North-Western Provinces, British India
Death Date:27 August 1961
(aged 81-82)
Death Place:Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Occupation:Urdu poet, lawyer
Nationality:Indian
Alma Mater:Aligarh Muslim University
Genre:Ghazal, Nazm

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

Early life and education

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] [4]

Career

Badayuni started composing poetry around Eleven years of age.[5] [6]

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.[7] [8]

Bibliography

His first collection of poems was published in 1917 from Badaun by Naqib Press. His other published works are:[9]

See also

References

  1. Web site: Delhi's own muse and more . https://web.archive.org/web/20031002182140/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/06/17/stories/2002061700660200.htm . dead . 2003-10-02 . . 2016-12-01.
  2. the second most celebrated son of the sleepy Awadh town
  3. News: IANS. 2015-12-06. Life as a painful predicament, and Urdu's gloomy poet (Column: Bookends). Business Standard India. 2020-12-16.
  4. Book: Datta, Amaresh . Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature: Devraj to Jyoti . 1988 . Sahitya Akademi . 978-81-260-1194-0 . en.
  5. Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2
  6. Book: Kanda, K. C. . Urdu Ghazals: An Anthology, from 16th to 20th Century . 1995 . Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd . 978-81-207-1826-5 . ur.
  7. The Last Nizam By Basant K. Bawa page 59
  8. Book: Imam, Syeda . The Untold Charminar . 2008-05-14 . Penguin UK . 978-81-8475-971-6 . en.
  9. Book: Patel . Alka . Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition . Leonard . Karen . 2011-11-25 . BRILL . 978-90-04-21209-1 . en.
  10. Web site: Fani Badayuni, born as Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 - 27 August 1961) (Urdu شوکت علی خان فانی بدایونی), was an Urdu poet . 2024-08-07 . kavishala.com.
  11. Book: Jalil, Rakhshanda . Love in the Time of Hate: In the Mirror of Urdu . 2024-05-14 . Simon and Schuster . 978-81-970426-9-0 . en.
  12. Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2
  13. Web site: Fani Badayuni : Read Poems by Poet Fani Badayuni . 2024-08-07 . www.poetrynook.com.

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