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'''Shaukat Ali Khan''' (1879 - 27 August 1941) , better known as '''Fani Badayuni''' (his [[takhallus]]), was an Indian [[Urdu]] poet.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/06/17/stories/2002061700660200.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031002182140/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2002/06/17/stories/2002061700660200.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2003-10-02 |title=Delhi's own muse and more |date= |work=[[The Hindu]] |access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref><ref>the second most celebrated son of the sleepy Awadh town</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
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 ([[Station house officer|SHO]]).{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} His great grandfather, Nawab Akbar Ali Khan, had lost his property during the [[Indian Mutiny]].{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} 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.<ref>{{Cite news|last=IANS|date=2015-12-06|title=Life as a painful predicament, and Urdu's gloomy poet (Column: Bookends)|work=Business Standard India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/life-as-a-painful-predicament-and-urdu-s-gloomy-poet-column-bookends-115120600104_1.html|access-date=2020-12-16}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Badayuni started composing poetry around twenty years of age.<ref>Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2</ref> He translated works of [[Shakespeare]] and [[John Milton|Milton]] in Urdu.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} He practiced law in [[Bareilly]] and Lucknow and later at Civil courts in Agra, but could not make much success.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} He published an Urdu magazine but closed it in 1931.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}<br />
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===In Hyderabad===<br />
Badayuni migrated to [[Hyderabad, India]] after the [[Nizam of Hyderabad|Nizam]]'s diwan [[Kishen Pershad|Maharaja Kishan Prasad 'Shad']], an Urdu lover and poet, got Fani appointed in the department of education.<ref>The Last Nizam By Basant K. Bawa page 59</ref><br />
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Badayuni was initially offered to join as a munsif (judge) as he was a law graduate.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} 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|date= June 2018}} 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|date= June 2018}}<br />
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Badayuni was associated with the Junior Prince Moazzam Jah's nocturnal court throughout his life in Hyderabad.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}} With him at the court were [[Josh Malihabadi]], Sadiq Jaisi, [[Mahir ul Qadri]] and others.{{Citation needed|date= June 2018}}<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
His first collection of poems was published in 1917 from Badaun by Naqib Press. His other published works are:-<br />
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* Baqiyat-e-Fani (1926) published by Maktab-e-Agra<br />
* Irfaniyat-e-Fani (1938) published by Anjuman Taraqqi Urdu<ref>Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 2</ref><br />
* Fani ki nadir tahriren: Havashi, tasrihat aur tanqidi ja'ize ke sath by Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni (1968)<br />
* Intikhab-i Fani (Silsilah-yi matbu°at) by Shaukat °Ali Khan Fani Badayuni<br />
* 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<br />
* Taraqqi Urdu) by Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni (1939)<br />
* Kulliyat-i Fani (Silsilah-e-matbu'at) by Shaukat Ali Khan Fani Badayuni (1992)<br />
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==See also==<br />
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* [[List of Urdu-language poets|List of Indian Urdu poets]]<br />
* [[List of Indian poets]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* Fani Badayuni (Urdu writer) by Mughni Tabassum, pp.&nbsp;92 (1993)<br />
* Jadid Urdu Shairi by Abdl Qadir Sarwari (1946)<br />
* Tareekh-o-tanqeed Adabiyat-e-Urdu by Hamid Husain Qadri (1947) Agra<br />
* A History of Urdu Literature by Muhammad Sadiq-(1967)<br />
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* 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]].<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Kanda|first=K. C.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=savUvFQbl_cC&pg=PA21|title=Urdu Rubaiyat|date=1996-01-01|publisher=Sterling Publishers Pvt., Limited|isbn=978-81-207-1827-2|language=en}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
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*[http://www.kavitakosh.org/kk/index.php?title=%E0%A4%AB%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%80 Fani Badayuni] at Kavita Kosh (Hindi font)<br />
*[http://www.urdupoetry.com/fani.html Fani Badayuni] at Urdupoetry.com<br />
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