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Biography

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born into a Bengali Muslim upper-class family in the small village of Pairaband in the district of Rangpur, north of present day Bangladesh, then a part of the colonial British province of Bengal Presidency.

Her date of birth is not known. However, a nephew of hers posits Dec. 9, 1880.

Her mother was Rahatunnessa Sabera Chowdhurani, the first of four wives.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (–) was a pioneering feminist writer, educationist and activist in colonial Bengal, who not only sought to emancipate women.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (–) was a pioneering feminist writer, educationist and activist in colonial Bengal, who not only sought to emancipate women.

“Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was born sometime in in the district of Rangpur in a village called Pairaband in British Indian Empire.

Although raised speaking Urdu in Bhagalpur in Bihar, Sakhawat Hossain had learned a little Bengali while studying at Hooghly College in Bengal.

The brainchild behind this pioneering work is Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, also known as Begum Rokeya, born in the year in Rangpur (present.

Rokeya stood for gender equality and a dignified life for women.

Not much is known of her except that she strictly followed purdah as Rokeya mentioned in dedicating to her The Secluded Ones, some humorous essays that expose some ridiculous consequences of the practice of Purdah (see Women, Islam and the Hijab).

Her father was Zahiruddin Mohammad Abu Ali Saber, a well-educated, influential landowner whose massive estate was a stronghold for the traditional way of life. Rokeya had two brothers (Abul Asad Ibrahim Saber and Khalilur Rahman Abu Jaigam Saber) and two sisters (Karimunessa and Humaira).

Being boys, her brothers were first educated at home (a