Rokeya was born in Rangpur in undivided Bengal at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although she had no formal education, with sheer inner courage and strength of character, Rokeya became the most celebrated female spokesperson for the progress of Muslim women’s education in Bangladesh. This article will firstly scrutinise Rokeya’s thoughts on pedagogy and secondly, it will evaluate her educational work against the context of the Bengal Renaissance and find out to what extent she was an independent thinker.
Pratiti Shirin (Fri,) studied this question.