মোছাঃ আনজুয়ারা বেগম
সিনিয়র শিক্ষক
২২ ফেব্রুয়ারি , ২০২১ ০৮:০৭ পূর্বাহ্ণ
Begum Rokeya
ধরন: সাধারণ শিক্ষা
শ্রেণি: সপ্তম
বিষয়: বাংলা ব্যাকরণ ও নির্মিতি
অধ্যায়: দ্বাদশ অধ্যায়
Begum Rokeya was born in 1880, at Pairabond, a village in the district of Rangpur. Her family was very conservative. Yet she received her education in English and Bengali from her elder brother, Ibrahim Sabir. In 1896, at the age of sixteen, Rokeya was married to Shakhawat Hossain. He was pleased to see the eagerness of his wife for education. In 1909, Shakhawat Hossain died. After the death of her husband Rokeya started the Shakhawat Memorial Girls' School at Bhagalpur. But the local people opposed it. She, therefore, left Bhagalpur for Calcutta and in 1911, she started the Shakhawat Memorial Girls' School in Calcutta with only 8 female students. In 1917 lady Chamsford, wife of the then Viceroy of India, visited the school. It was then upgraded to a High English School. In 1931, three girl students appeared at the Entrance Examination under the Calcutta University.The school still stands at the heart of the city of Calcutta. In 1916, Begum Rokeya established the Muslim Mahila Samity. Begum Rokeya was a writer also. Through her pen she tried to awaken the Muslim women of the Indian subcontinent. In 1932, on the 9th December, Begum Rokeya died at the age of 52. At her death the country plunged into deep grief.