Brij Mohan Dattatreya Kaifi was born on 13 December 1866 in
Delhi. He was a student of
Altaf Hussain Hali in poetry. He was also well up in
Hindi,
Arabic,
Persian, and
English. He lived in
Lahore for many years, where his son was an editor of
The Tribune. Kaifi proved to be a great asset for
Anjuman-i Taraqqi-i Urdu after
Abdul Haq. He died on 1 November 1955 in
Ghaziabad. == References ==