Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born in 1880 in Pairaband, in the district of Rangpur, into a family of landowners. Kept in seclusion from childhood, she learned Bengali and English in secret with her elder brother Ibrahim Saber. Married in 1898 to Sakhawat Hossain, a magistrate of Bhagalpur, and widowed in 1909, she opened a school for Muslim girls in Bhagalpur that same year, refounded it in Calcutta in 1911 and in 1916 created an association of Muslim women of Bengal. She died in Calcutta on 9 December 1932.

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• Short storiesSultana's DreamRokeya Sakhawat Hossain · 1905Literature