Sonia Nishat Amin

Sonia Nishat Amin (professor, Dept of History, University of Dhaka) specialises in the study of gender and culture in colonial Bengal .

Brilliantly rejecting the notion of inferiority

Rokeya (English spelling used by her: Roquiah) was born circa 1880 (alternately 1878) to a declining aristocratic land-owning family in the village of Pyrabund, Rangpur in present-day Bangladesh.

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December 9, 2017
December 9, 2017

Brilliantly rejecting the notion of inferiority

Rokeya (English spelling used by her: Roquiah) was born circa 1880 (alternately 1878) to a declining aristocratic land-owning family in the village of Pyrabund, Rangpur in present-day Bangladesh.