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Begum Rokeya

1880 - 1932

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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (9 December 1880 – 9 December 1932), commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist from British India. She is widely regarded as a pioneer of women's liberation in Bangladesh and India. She advocated for men and women to be treated equally as rational beings, noting that the lack of education for women was responsible for their inferior economic position. Her major works include Matichur (A String of Sweet Pearls, 1904 and 1922), a collection of essays in two volumes expressing her feminist thoughts; Sultana's Dream (1908), a feminist science fiction novella set in Ladyland ruled by women; Padmarag ("Essence of the Lotus", 1924) depicting the difficulties faced by Bengali wives; and Abarodhbasini (The Confined Women, 1931), a spirited attack on the extreme forms of purdah that endangered women's lives and self-image. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Begum Rokeya is the 3,351st most popular writer (down from 1,896th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Bangladesh (down from 11th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Bangladeshi Writer.

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Among writers, Begum Rokeya ranks 3,351 out of 7,302. Before her are Nathan Alterman, Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Russell T Davies, Kafū Nagai, Mike Mentzer, and Alexander Bestuzhev. After her are Olena Teliha, James Rollins, Lucius Varius Rufus, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Ion Heliade Rădulescu, and Yulian Semyonov.

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Among people born in 1880, Begum Rokeya ranks 119. Before her are Zequinha de Abreu, Azim Azimzade, Tudor Arghezi, Viggo Larsen, George Van Biesbroeck, and Xhafer Ypi. After her are Walter Short, Conrad Albrecht, Lajos Bíró, Carl Schuricht, Lipót Fejér, and Dmitry Karbyshev. Among people deceased in 1932, Begum Rokeya ranks 77. Before her are Francisco S. Carvajal, Augusto B. Leguía, Julius Röntgen, Frederick Jackson Turner, Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Peg Entwistle. After her are Paul Gorguloff, Émile Grumiaux, Edward Marsh, Karl Blossfeldt, Filippo Turati, and Bipin Chandra Pal.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Begum Rokeya ranks 22 out of 74. Before her are Iajuddin Ahmed (1931), Anandamayi Ma (1896), Khawaja Nazimuddin (1894), Meghnad Saha (1893), Mahasweta Devi (1926), and Radhabinod Pal (1886). After her are Patrick D'Rozario (1943), Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930), Bipin Chandra Pal (1858), Chittaranjan Das (1869), S. D. Burman (1906), and A. B. Bardhan (1924).

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Among WRITERS In Bangladesh

Among writers born in Bangladesh, Begum Rokeya ranks 3. Before her are Sri Chinmoy (1931), and Mahasweta Devi (1926). After her are Chittaranjan Das (1869), Taslima Nasrin (1962), Kamini Roy (1864), Humayun Ahmed (1948), Ahmed Sofa (1943), Sufia Kamal (1911), Shankha Ghosh (1932), Avijit Roy (1972), and Mamunul Haque (1973).

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