Khodeja Khatun Explained

Khodeja Khatun
Birth Date:15 August 1917
Birth Place:Mandaldharan village, Bogra District, Bengal Presidency, British India
Alma Mater:University of Dhaka

Khodeja Khatun (August 15, 1917 – February 3, 1990) was a Bangladeshi educationist, writer and social worker.[1]

Education and career

In 1939, Khatun became the second Muslim woman of Bengal to obtain a master's degree in Bangla literature from the University of Dhaka. In 1941 she became a lecturer in Lady Brabourne College in Kolkata. After the Partition of India in 1947, she migrated to Dhaka.[1]

From 1960, she served as a professor of Bangla at Eden Girls' College for eight years and as principal of the Rajshahi Government Women's College for four years. Later, she served as the principal of Eden Girls' College. She authored several books and continued to publish after retiring as an educationist and until her death in early 1990.[1]

Works

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Khatun, Khodeja. Md Masud Parvez. Nov 4, 2015. Banglapedia. December 22, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151222113237/http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Khatun,_Khodeja. live.
  2. Book: Bari . Latiful . Bangladesh District Gazetteers: Bogra . 1979 . Dacca . Bangladesh Government Press . 708216 . 230.