Exploring lesser known History
Have you heard of Dr Umm e Kulsoom & Dr Amturraqeeb (also known as the Yaqoob sisters)? Do you know who were they and what are they known for?
Amturraqeeb and Ummekulsoom were sisters who are considered as the first Muslim female Indian doctors.
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An Italian scholarly female professor, Dorotea Bucca (1360-1436) of the University of Bologna became the first female to teach medicine at the university.
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Just the other day I was a part of a live discussion in a Muslim Spaces on Twitter. The topic
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The Nazareth Hospital needs an hour to treat people, suffering from COVID-19, residing in this community where patients struggle at home as hospitals choke.
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The following text is a reproduction of an excerpt from Hayat-i-Qudsia, written by Begum Sultan Jahan
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In 1977, Dr Sushila Nayar retired from the political arena and continued working for the upliftment of society.
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Hudson paid tribute to the bravery of this woman by comparing her with Joan of Arc of France. He contended that the courage, leadership, and valour of this green-wearing Muslim woman was no less than Joan of Arc.
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Sayeed Sultana was India’s table tennis national champion in 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953 and 1954. Her family migrated to Pakistan in 1956. She too went to Pakistan and continued playing and won championships in 1956, 1957, and 1958. She was the table tennis national champion of Pakistan. In 1959, she retired and passed away on 15th September, 2005.
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Syeda Muhammadi Begum was the first woman in the Indian sub-continent to be the editor of a weekly magazine, ‘Tehzeeb-e-Niswaan’.
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‘Meri na-kaam Mohabbat’ (My failed love), a story written by Begum Hijab Imtiaz Ali when she was 12 years old is often considered as one of the best romantic stories ever written in Urdu. The family she was married into was one of the most progressive Muslim families and encouraged her to learn flying after marriage and becoming mother.
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Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz was one of the two women representatives at the First Round Table Conference, one of the three women representatives at the Second Round Table Conference, and the only woman at the Third Round Table Conference. Later on, when the Joint Select Committee was formed to finalize the Government of India Act, of 1935, Jahanara was the only woman member of it.
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According to historians, Begum Mahboob Fatima was the first Muslim woman in Delhi to have been sentenced to prison for waging ‘the war against the Crown’.
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Nandini Satpathy served as a minister in the Indira Gandhi government before being chosen as CM of Odisha. In her long public career, she never lost an election.
It all began with that anti-British protest where, as an eight-year-old, Satpathy was beaten up by the police.
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By, Saba Tabassum Beauty cannot be analyzed with ease. Balancing beauty; externally and internally, is in fact quite rare. In
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This article throws light on one such Hajj expedition undertaken by Nawab Sikandar Begum of Bhopal.
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Lady Evelyn Murray spent her later days travelling and preaching Islam. Her book “Pilgrimage to Mecca” is the oldest record of the trip to Hajj.
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The ouster of Indira Gandhi in 1977 and the formation of the Janata Party-led government at the centre resulted in renewed social and economic tensions in Indian society. The cleavages, which were invisible, came out in the open. On 27th May, 1977, occurred what can be termed as one of the first major massacres of Dalits (lower castes) in Bihar.
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The trust organized a special premier of ‘Gomti ke Kinare’, the last movie of Meena Kumari, and raised Rupees 50,000 through it. For the other Rupees 50,000 several film personalities promised to donate, which they never did.
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John Venables Sturt, who was stationed near Jhansi during 1857, claimed that the Muslim woman accompanying Rani was Moondar and that only Moondar was martyred on the spot while Rani Lakshmibai could not be killed by the British bullets.
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Rupa Bai Furdoonji was an active member of the First and Second Hyderabad Chloroform Commissions held in 1888 and 1891 respectively.
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