Farhat Banu

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Khawaja Shahabuddin
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Farhat Banu
Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly
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1937–1945
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Farhat Banu was a Member of the Dhaka Nawab family and member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly in British India. Her uncle was the Nawab of Dhaka, Sir Khwaja Salimullah.

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Career

Farhat Banu was a Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly, the largest legislature in the British Raj. [5] She was also a member of the select committee and one 21 women members in that committee. [6] She introduced The Orphanages and Widows Home Act inn 1944 in the Bengal Legislative Assembly. [7] She gave a copy of the bill to Kumudini Basu, Secretary of the Nari Raksha Samiti. [8]

Personal life

Farhat Banu was married to Khwaja Shahabuddin of the Dhaka Nawab family in 1912. Khwaja Shahabuddin was the Governor of Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan and served as a Minister in the Cabinet of Pakistan. Khwaja Shahabuddin died on 9 February 1977 in Karachi, Pakistan. [9] Her father was Nawabzada Khwaja Atiqullah was also a member of the Dhaka Nawab family and her uncle, Sir Khwaja Salimullah, was the Nawab of Dhaka. Her son was Lieutenant General Khwaja Wasiuddin. [5] [10] Her another son was Khwaja Zakiuddin, a banker in East Pakistan. Zakiuddin was married to Begum Binoo Zakiuddin, they had two daughters Almas Zakiuddin and Yasmeen Murshed and one son Zahed Zakiuddin. [11] Her husband's niece, Hashmat Ara Begum, was married to Khondoker Fazle Sobhan, one of their son is, noted economist Rehman Sobhan. [12]

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