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About Khujastha Akhtar Banu
Khujista Akhtar Banu Suhrawardiyya, popularly known as Suhrawardy Begum, was a late 19th-century writer, Bengali socialite, educationist, and social reformer. Khujista was the first Indian woman to pass the Senior Cambridge examinations, in the year 1887. She was also the first Indian woman to be appointed as an examiner by the prestigious Calcutta University. She was the mother of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, the former Prime Minister of Bengal.
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- writer
- Born
- 1874
- Died
- 1919, January 12, 1912