Shaukat Ali Khan (1879 - 27 August 1941), better known as Fani Badayuni (his
takhallus A takhallus ( ur, , fa, تخلّص, hi, तख़ल्लुस), is a pen-name. Pen names were widely adopted by Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi and Persian poets.
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in 1901, studied law at
Aligarh Muslim University
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, earning L.L.B. degree in 1906.
Career
Badayuni started composing poetry around twenty years of age.
In Hyderabad
Badayuni migrated to
Hyderabad, India
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after the
Nizam
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His first collection of poems was published in 1917 from Badaun by Naqib Press. His other published works are:
* Baqiyat-e-Fani (1926) published by Maktab-e-Agra
* Irfaniyat-e-Fani (1938) published by Anjuman Taraqqi UrduEncyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2
* Fani ki nadir tahriren: Havashi, tasrihat aur tanqidi ja'ize ke sath by Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni (1968)
* Intikhab-i Fani (Silsilah-yi matbu°at) by Shaukat °Ali Khan Fani Badayuni
* Irfaniyat-i-Fani: Ya'ni Janab Shaukat Ali Khan Sahib Fani Badayuni ke qadim-o-jadid kalam ka mukammal majmu'ah (Silsilah-e-Anjuman-e
* Taraqqi Urdu) by Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni (1939)
* Kulliyat-i Fani (Silsilah-e-matbu'at) by Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni (1992)
List of Indian poets
This list of Indian poets consists of poets of Indian ethnic, cultural or religious ancestry either born in India or emigrated to India from other regions of the world.
Assamese
* Amulya Barua (1922–1946), first published posthumously in 1 ...
References
Further reading
* Fani Badayuni (Urdu writer) by Mughni Tabassum, pp. 92 (1993)
* Jadid Urdu Shairi by Abdl Qadir Sarwari (1946)
* Tareekh-o-tanqeed Adabiyat-e-Urdu by Hamid Husain Qadri (1947) Agra
* A History of Urdu Literature by Muhammad Sadiq-(1967)
* A detailed account of Fani's personal life can be found in the Urdu book ''Durbaar-e-Durbaar'', by Sadq Jaisi and in the English translation (''The Nocturnal Court'') of the same book by
Narendra Luther
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