Question

Who started schools for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta?
(a) Mumtaz Ali (b) Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain (c)
Sayyid Ahmed Khan (d) None of these

Answer 1

B)Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain

Answer 2

" Option  B) Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain ".

Explanation:

• Roquaih realised that women could be freed from their shackles only if they were educated and became economically independent.

• Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hussain opened school for muslim girls in places like Patna and Calcutta. At 1880, indian women began to enter universities. some of them trained to be doctors, and teachers, etc.

• Sakhawat Hossain is primarily remembered for her role in the women's movement in Bangladesh.

• She established an organisation called the Muslim women's society, in 1916 to make women aware of their rights.

• A hostility over family property with her step daughter's husband caused her to close down the school in bhagalpur, abandon her house, and move to calcutta where she reopened the Sakhawat Memorial Girls' School on 16th March 1911.