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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (9 December 1880 – 9 December 1932), commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist from British India. She is widely regarded as a pioneer of women's liberation in Bangladesh and India.
Born in 1880, at the peak of British colonisation of India, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain popularly known as Begum Rokeya lived a short, yet meaningful life. A Bengali writer and activist, she has often been touted as the pioneer feminist of Bengal.
Aug 29, 2020 · Rokeya Sakhwat Hossain or Begum Rokeya was a 19th Century feminist writer, educationist and social reformer. Born in what is today Bangladesh to a wealthy Muslim family, Begum...
Dec 9, 2018 · For those who may not know, Begum Rokeya was an advocate of women's rights in the Indian subcontinent during the British rule. Through her charismatic and resilient...
Mar 11, 2021 · Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain also known as Begum Rokeya, was a litterateur, educationist, social reformer and feminist who worked tirelessly for the emancipation of Muslim women. Her book ‘Sultana’s Dream’ is a rare feminist literature that imagined a utopia of an advanced scientifically developed society where gender roles were reversed; men ...
Bengal Muslim emancipator and educator. Name variations: Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. BornRokeya Saber in rural Rangpur (present-day Bangladesh), in 1880; died in 1932; married Sakhawat Hossain (deputy magistrate of Bhagalpur); no children.
Dec 27, 2022 · Begum Rokeya was the first woman in her society to highlight the issue of gender inequality, and through her writing and social work, she passed a message to the Bengali women to embark...
Jan 3, 2024 · Roquiah Sakhawat Hossain, also known as Begum Rokeya, was the first to start a school for educating Muslim girls in Calcutta. Rokeya was born in 1880 to a wealthy landlord of Pairabondh village in Rangpur (now Bangladesh).
Mar 24, 2022 · Known after her death by the honorific Begum Rokeya (a “begum” is a Muslim woman of high rank), Hossain was born to a well-educated Muslim family in the Bengal Presidency — a subdivision of the British Empire in India now divided into Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.
Aug 29, 2020 · Rokeya Sakhwat Hossain or Begum Rokeya was a 19th Century feminist writer, educationist and social reformer. Born in what is today Bangladesh to a wealthy Muslim family, Begum...
