Fani Badayuni

Fani badayuni
Fani badayuni
Born	Shaukat Ali Khan; 1879; Badaun, North-Western Provinces, British India
Died	27 August 1961 ; (aged 81-82); Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
Occupation	Urdu poet, lawyer
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Aligarh Muslim University
Genre	Ghazal, Nazm

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

Early life[edit]

Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni was born in Islamnagar, Badaun, Uttar Pradesh, to Shujath Ali Khan, a zamindar and later with the police as thanedar (SHO).^{[citation needed]} His great grandfather, Nawab Akbar Ali Khan, had lost his property during the Indian Mutiny.^{[citation needed]} 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[edit]

Badayuni started composing poetry around twenty years of age.^[4] He translated works of Shakespeare and Milton in Urdu.^{[citation needed]} He practiced law in Bareilly and Lucknow and later at Civil courts in Agra, but could not make much success.^{[citation needed]} He published an Urdu magazine but closed it in 1931.^{[citation needed]}

In Hyderabad[edit]

Badayuni 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]

Badayuni was initially offered to join as a munsif (judge) as he was a law graduate.^{[citation needed]} But he did not accept it since he was moving from the city. He later accepted the post of a school head master in Hyderabad.^{[citation needed]} During the day, he would attend school and at night would attend Moazzam Jah's court till early hours. These late nights did not give him enough time to continue at school as head master, he would sleep at the office chair. News spread that he was removed from the post.^{[citation needed]}

Badayuni was associated with the Junior Prince Moazzam Jah's nocturnal court throughout his life in Hyderabad.^{[citation needed]} With him at the court were Josh Malihabadi, Sadiq Jaisi, Mahir ul Qadri and others.^{[citation needed]}

Bibliography[edit]

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 Urdu^[6]
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)

References[edit]

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

External links[edit]

Fani Badayuni at Kavita Kosh (Hindi font)
Fani Badayuni at Urdupoetry.com

[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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