Hasina Murshed | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| In office 1937–1945 | |
| Succeeded by | Husan Ara Begum [1] |
| Constituency | Women's (Calcutta) |
| Personal details | |
| Spouse | Syed Manzoor Murshed |
| Children | Syed Tanweer Murshed |
| Relatives | Yasmeen Murshed (daughter-in-law) |
Hasina Murshed was a Bengali politician,educationist,and a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Begum Hasina Murshed was married to Syed Manzoor Murshed. They had a son Syed Tanweer Murshed. Tanweer was married to Yasmeen Murshed,a member of Dhaka Nawab family.
She herself was a member of the Dhaka Nawab family as she was a daughter of Khwaja Habibullah,the fifth nawab of Dhaka. [2]
Murshed was elected to the Bengal Legislative Assembly of British India in 1937. [3] She was the first women parliamentary secretary of Bengal. Self-educated,she was one of the founders of Lady Brabourne College,the first college in Bengal for Muslim women [4] and sat on its governing body. [5] She was awarded the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) by the British Raj. [6] She was a member of the Coalition Party. In the Bengal Legislative Assembly,she talked about the importance of women's education and called for the building of women's college and hostels. [7]