Fani Badayuni

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

[1][2] He was schooled at Government High School and graduated from Bareilly College in 1901, studied law at Aligarh Muslim University, earning L.L.B.

[3][4] Badayuni started composing poetry around Eleven years of age.

[5][6] 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] His first collection of poems was published in 1917 from Badaun by Naqib Press.