Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School

Nawab Faizunnessa Government Girls' High School
নওয়াব ফয়জুন্নেসা সরকারি বালিকা বিদ্যালয়

Better Education For Better Citizen
Location
Comilla
Bangladesh
Coordinates 23°27′45″N 91°10′38″E / 23.4625°N 91.1771°E / 23.4625; 91.1771Coordinates: 23°27′45″N 91°10′38″E / 23.4625°N 91.1771°E / 23.4625; 91.1771
Information
Established 1873 (1873)
Number of students 2000+
Campus Comilla city centre
Color(s) navy-blue
Front gate to the school

Nawab Faizunnessa 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. Faizunnessa, a wealthy zamindar, established Faizunnessa 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]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ↑ Srivastava, Gouri (2003-01-01). The Legend Makers: Some Eminent Muslim Women of India. Concept Publishing Company. pp. 10–. ISBN 9788180690013. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan (2013-05-24). Muslim Women,, Reform and Princely Patronage. Routledge. pp. 86–. ISBN 9781134143474. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. ↑ Ray, Bharati (2002). Early Feminsts of Colonial India: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195656978. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  4. 1 2 Caudhurāṇī, Phaẏajunnesā (2009). Nawab Faizunnesa's Rupjalal. BRILL. pp. 6–. ISBN 9789004167803. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  5. ↑ Amin, S N (1996). The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939. BRILL. pp. 150–. ISBN 9789004106420. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  6. ↑ Smith, Bonnie G. (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press.
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