Begum Rokeya

About

Begum Rokeya (Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, 1880–1932) was a Bengali writer, educator, and social reformer from Bengal. She advocated strongly for women’s education and equality and founded a school for Muslim girls in Calcutta. Sultana’s Dream became one of her best-known works and is recognized as an early feminist utopian work of South Asian literature.