Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School | |
Native Name: | নবাব ফয়জুন্নেছা সরকারি বালিকা উচ্চ বিদ্যালয় |
Motto: | Better Education For Better Citizen |
Students: | About 2000 |
City: | Comilla |
Country: | Bangladesh |
Coordinates: | 23.4625°N 91.1771°W |
Campus: | Comilla city centre |
Sports: | Cricket, football, badminton |
Nawab Faizunnesa 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. Faizunnesa, a wealthy zamindar, established Faizunnesa 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]