Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School

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Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School
নবাব ফয়জুন্নেছা সরকারি বালিকা উচ্চ বিদ্যালয়
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Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School
Comilla

Bangladesh
Coordinates 23°27′45″N91°10′38″E / 23.4625°N 91.1771°E / 23.4625; 91.1771
Information
MottoBetter Education For Better Citizen
Established1873 (1873)
Number of studentsAbout 2000
CampusComilla city centre
Color  
SportsCricket, football, badminton
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Front gate to the school

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]

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  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 Feminists 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. 1 2 Smith, Bonnie G. (2008). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press.


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