Begum Rokeya

 Begum Rokeya (1880-1932) was the pioneer of the awaking of Muslim Woman. She was the forge for the Muslim Freedom for Woman Struggle.  She shows deprived, ruled Muslim Woman Society a light for justice and the way of freedom by her extra-ordinary skill and personality. Begum Rokeya was the first person ever who demands for the equal right in Muslim Society and publicizes strong view at the side of Woman Freedom.

Begum Rokeya strongly believed that to gain the Freedom of Woman three things are obvious such as vast increase of woman education, the economical sufficiency of woman and stop the physical conservative rule for woman. Base on these three things she prolongs her struggle from the begging of 20^th century to her last breath. She wanted freedom of woman and independent of woman due to increase the development of the country and the society and also to bloom the personality of woman. As a writer, educationist, social worker, Begum Rokeya wanted to free woman from their mental slavery and establish her as a person in the society. Begum Rokeya couldn’t tolerate the superiority of man towards woman and to destroy this evil rule she declare to awake the woman generation from sleep.

Childhood:

Begum Rokeya was born in the Pairaband village of Rangpur district in the month of December of 1880. She was born in a prosperous family. His father Johiruddin Muhammad Abu Ali Hayder Saheb was a very splendor landlord. She grew up in a very big house very close to nature. She had to follow a very strict covering rule of the name of Islam. From the age of five girls must have to maintain the rule. Even they didn’t have permission to go in front of girls. If any man suddenly comes to the side of house where woman lives, they have to conceal like insect at that moment whenever they can.