Anwara Khatun Explained

Anwara Khatun
Office1:Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
Term Start1:1946
Term End1:1947
Constituency1:Women's (Dacca)
Predecessor1:Farhat Banu
Birth Date:1925
Birth Place:Mirpur, Dacca, Bengal Presidency
Party:All-India Muslim League
Awami League
Spouse:Ali Amzad Khan

Anwara Khatun (Bengali: আনোয়ারা খাতুন) was a Bengali politician and member of provincial assembly.[1]

Early life

Khatun was born in 1925 in Mirpur, Dacca, Bengal Presidency.[2] She was married off when she was six years old. She completed a bachelor's degree in law and another in technology after which she completed her master's degree in art.

Career

Khatun was elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1946. She had hosted Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy at her house when he came to Dhaka in 1948.[3] She was invited to join the Shorbodolio Rashtrabhasha Shangram Parishad by Kazi Golam Mahbub. She was an activist of the Bengali language movement.[4] She spoke in the assembly against the death of students protesting for making Bengali a state language of Pakistan in police action. She was expelled from the Muslim League.[5] She attended the conference in Rose Garden which led to the creation of Awami League.[6]

Khatun was re-elected to the East Bengal Provincial Assembly in 1954 as a candidate of the United Front.

Khatun led the Awami League in 1966 when the male leadership party was imprisoned.[7]

Personal life

Khatun's husband, Ali Amzad Khan, was a founder of the Awami League.

Death

Khatun died in 1988.[8]

Notes and References

  1. News: 2011-11-30 . Death anniversary . 2022-12-17 . The Daily Star . en.
  2. News: Bari . Sarah Anjum . 2020-02-21 . Anwara Khatun: The outspoken voice . 2022-12-17 . The Daily Star . en.
  3. Book: Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh . The unfinished memoirs . 2012 . 978-0-670-08546-0 . New Delhi, India . 114–115 . 840484565.
  4. News: History seems indifferent to 'her tale' . 2022-12-17 . The Daily Observer.
  5. Book: Nair, M. B. . Politics in Bangladesh : a study of Awami League, 1949-58 . 1990 . Northern Book Centre . 81-85119-79-1 . New Delhi . 57 . 25108872.
  6. Book: Mujibur Rahman, Sheikh . The unfinished memoirs . 2012 . 978-0-670-08546-0 . New Delhi, India . 129 . 840484565.
  7. Book: Joseph . Suad . Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Family, Law and Politics . Naǧmābādī . Afsāna . 2003 . BRILL . 978-90-04-12818-7 . 54 . en.
  8. News: 2017-11-30 . Anwara Khatun's anniversary of death today . 2022-12-17 . The Daily Star . en.