Begum Rokeya
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, also known as Begum Rokeya (Begum is a feminine honorific and not an official part of Rokeya Hossain's name), was a Bengali Muslim feminist writer who wrote essays, novels, and short stories on the state of women's rights in British India and women's liberation. Born in 1880 into an upper-class family, Rokeya's father taught both her and her sister Arabic, Persian, English, and Bengali, although he encouraged the two young women to focus on studying Arabic and...
