Brij Narayan Chakbast
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Brij Narayan Chakbast (also Brij Narain Chakbast) (1882-1926) was an Urdu poet. He was born in a Saraswat Brahmin family of Kashmiri extraction settled in North India.
Chakbast was born in Faizabad (near Lucknow). His father Pandit Udit Narayan Chakbast was also a poet. After the death of his father in 1887, the family moved to Lucknow. Chakbast was educated in Lucknow, and he became a successful lawyer. In 1926, he collapsed at the railway station in Rae Bareli and died few hours later.
Chakbast made a thorough study of Urdu poetry. He defended Daya Shankar Kaul Nasim when it was suggested that he was not the author of the epic Gul Bakawali.
He was actively involved in the Home Rule Movement.
