Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School

Nawab Faizunnessa Government Girls' High School
নওয়াব ফয়জুন্নেসা সরকারি বালিকা বিদ্যালয়

Better Education For Better Citizen
Location
Comilla
Bangladesh
Information
Established 1873
Number of students 2000+
Campus Comilla city centre
Front gate to the school

Nawab Faizunnessa Government Girls' High School is a girls' school in Comilla, Bangladesh, established in 1873 by Faizunnesa Choudhurani, who would in 1889 be titled India's only female nawab by Queen Victoria. Faizunnessa, a wealthy zamindar, established Faizunnessa Girls' Pilot High School, having noted the need for female education which would accommodate Muslim girls practising purdah.[1][2][3] The school taught its children in the local Bengali language rather than Urdu or Persian which were the standard languages of education at the time.[4] The students also learned English.[4] During the early years of its establishment, it was treated as the English medium school for girls. It was converted to a junior high school in 1889, and to a high school in 1931.[5]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ Srivastava, Gouri (2003-01-01). The Legend Makers: Some Eminent Muslim Women of India. Concept Publishing Company. pp. 10–. ISBN 9788180690013. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan (2013-05-24). Muslim Women,, Reform and Princely Patronage. Routledge. pp. 86–. ISBN 9781134143474. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Ray, Bharati (2002). Early Feminsts of Colonial India: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195656978. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  4. 1 2 Caudhurāṇī, Phaẏajunnesā (2009). Nawab Faizunnesa's Rupjalal. BRILL. pp. 6–. ISBN 9789004167803. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  5. ↑ Amin, S N (1996). The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939. BRILL. pp. 150–. ISBN 9789004106420. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  6. ↑ Smith, Bonnie G. (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press.

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Coordinates: 23°27′45″N 91°10′38″E / 23.4625°N 91.1771°E / 23.4625; 91.1771

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