Search Results - "Bengali Muslim"
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Inspired by the Bengal Renaissance: Rokeya's role in the education and emancipation of Bengali (Muslim) women
Published 2016“…The article examines the influences of the Bengal Renaissance on the mind and sensibility of Rokeya Sakhwat Hossain and investigates how she systematically worked for the education of Bengali Muslim women in India to empower them and eventually pave the way for their social and cultural emancipation. …”
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More than 3,000 Bengali Muslims impersonating Rohingyas to obtain UNHCR card
Published 2016“…ALOR SETAR: More than 3,000 Bengali "Muslims from Bangladesh are said to have posed as Rohingya refugees to obtain United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) cards, in the past 10 years.…”
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A feminist foremother: critical essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Published 2017“…This volume looks at the life and works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880–1932), arguably Bengal’s earliest and boldest feminist, revered as a crusader for the emancipation and advancement of women, in particular Bengali Muslim women. Through her spirited writings and her activism, Rokeya challenged the two pillars of patriarchy – hierarchical family structures and religious dogma. …”
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Nurse Nelly
Published 2012“…A translated short story from Bengali to English, authored by the acclaimed Bengali Muslim writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain.…”
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Politics of nationalism and religion: the experience of Indian sub-continent
Published 2018“…It examines how nationalism and religion inter-played to split India into a Hindu India and a Muslim Pakistan, and yet again how ethno-nationalism overtook religious identity to split Muslim Pakistan leading to the emergence of a new ethnic-linguistic Bengali Muslim nationalism. Key Words: Bengali nationalism. …”
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Gender and education: the vision and activism of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Published 2014“…This paper will investigate Rokeya’s feminist ideology and her educational programmes undertaken for the betterment of Indian women, especially Bengali Muslim women. I intend to argue that although born into an orthodox family and brought up in strict purdah without any formal education, Rokeya had that rare foresight and courage to challenge the social status quo of her time and ridicule many of the outmoded gender practices in her writings, and even turn gender relations upside down by creating a Ladyland in her utopian narrative Sultana’s Dream (1905), in which men are confined to indoors while women run the state. …”
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Representing Identity In Cinema: The Case Of Selected Independent Films Of Bangladesh
Published 2010“…This explorative study tends to examine how the Bengali Muslim identity i.e. the national identity of Bangladesh, is represented in selected independent films. …”
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Gender and education: the vision and activism of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Published 2016“…This paper will investigate Rokeya’s feminist ideology and her educational programmes undertaken for the betterment of Indian women, especially Bengali Muslim women. I intend to argue that although born into an orthodox family and brought up in strict purdah without any formal education, Rokeya had that rare foresight and courage to challenge the social status quo of her time and ridicule many of the outmoded gender practices in her writings, and even turn gender relations upside down by creating a Ladyland in her utopian narrative Sultana’s Dream (1905), in which men are confined to indoors while women run the state. …”
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The Essential Rokeya: selected works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932)
Published 2013“…This will enable readers outside Bangladesh and West Bengal to appraise and appreciate Rokeya’s fundamental role in the feminist awakening in South Asia, especially among the Bengali Muslims of her time.…”
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