by Admin | Feb 12, 2026 | Politics
Prof. A. Nabeesa Ummal was a trailblazing Indian academic, orator, and politician from Kerala who shattered multiple social barriers as a Muslim woman in the mid-20th century. Born on 30 June 1931 in Kallanvila, Attingal, in present-day Thiruvananthapuram district,...
by Admin | Aug 28, 2025 | Urdu Literature
Dr Aamna Khatoon (1915-1983) was a distinguished and pioneering figure in the field of Urdu literature and linguistics. As the Head of the Urdu Department at Bangalore University, she established herself as a formidable scholar in an era when female researchers...
by Admin | Jul 13, 2025 | Freedom Movement
Abadi Bano Begum (popularly known as Bi Amma) was the first Muslim woman to actively participate in the freedom struggle for independence. She hailed from Amroha Village, Uttar Pradesh, but her primary activities were centred in Amritsar and Lahore. She was born in...
by Admin | Dec 25, 2025 | Urdu Literature
Abbasi Begum occupies a foundational yet under-recognised position in the early history of Urdu fiction by Muslim women in colonial India. Writing during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—a formative phase in the evolution of Urdu prose—she...
by Admin | Aug 12, 2025 | Royalty
Her Highness Suraiya Jah, Nawab Gowhar-i-Taj, Abida Sultan Begum Sahiba (1913–2002) was a towering figure of South Asian royalty, the eldest daughter and heir apparent of Nawab Hamidullah Khan, the last ruling Nawab of Bhopal. A woman of fierce independence and...
