by Admin | Aug 14, 2025 | Education, Social Work
Begum Badr-un-Nissa Akhtar was a pioneering figure in the history of women’s education and social reform in early 20th-century British India. Born into a distinguished intellectual family, the Suhrawardys of Midnapore, Bengal, in 1894, she received an...
by Admin | Jul 30, 2025 | Education
Begum Khursheed Khwaja (1894-1981) was a pioneering Indian figure in education, women’s empowerment, and the national freedom struggle. Born into an aristocratic family as the daughter of Justice Hameedullah Khan of Hyderabad, her marriage to Abdul Majeed...
by Admin | Jul 19, 2025 | Social Work
Begum Nafees Dulhan Sahiba was a prominent and influential advocate for women’s education and social reform in Hyderabad during the early 20th century. As the wife of Nawab Sardar Yar Jung Bahadur and a member of a distinguished family, she leveraged her social...
by Admin | Jul 19, 2025 | Education, Social Work
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was a pioneering Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator, and social activist who championed women’s rights in British India during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her tireless efforts to challenge oppressive social norms...
by Admin | Aug 2, 2025 | Education, Social Work
Begum Shehnaz Sidrat is a prominent Indian social reformer and the dynamic president of Bazm-e-Khawateen, Lucknow’s oldest and most influential Muslim women’s organisation. For decades, she has been a pivotal voice in the movement for Muslim women’s...