![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although I do not intend to recount Rokeya's biographical details here, I should stress the point right at the outset: Rokeya's life as a Muslim woman-lived courageously and even dangerously-illustrates nothing short of sustained struggles against religious bigotry, lack of education, shifting vectors and valences of colonialism, patriarchy affecting the practice of everyday life, and other forms and forces of oppression in colonial Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But there are now several biographies of Rokeya and scores of books and articles on her. This means a certain misappropriation and depoliticization of her work as well. Indeed, Rokeya has by now been institutionalized, iconized, and, for that matter, even reified. The Rokeya Day in Bangladesh also falls on December 09. December 09 marks both the birth and death anniversaries of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). ![]()
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