Towards Ladyland: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and the movement for women's education in Bengal, c. 1900–c. 1932

@article{Bagchi2009TowardsLR,
  title={Towards Ladyland: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and the movement for women's education in Bengal, c. 1900–c. 1932},
  author={B. Bagchi},
  journal={Paedagogica Historica},
  year={2009},
  volume={45},
  pages={743 - 755}
}
  • B. Bagchi
  • Published 2009
  • Sociology
  • Paedagogica Historica
    • This paper analyses the work of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880–1932), urban Bengali Muslim educator and writer, placing her in the wider context of women organising themselves in associations to create social change through education for women, in the province of undivided Bengal in colonial India, from c. 1900 to c. 1932. A subject of the British Indian Empire, Rokeya, and many of her colleagues, wrote back to the empire against both colonialism and patriarchy, and created innovative… CONTINUE READING
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