The first Muslim student of Dhaka University ...

Until 1958, the law of Dhaka University was that if a boy wanted to talk to a girl, he had to apply to the proctor. He can speak only if the proctor allows. Also not. Not even with any girl in his class.

December 1926, just 7 years after the establishment of Dhaka University. One day a young man came from Kolkata. Visit Dhaka University. He went out with some friends. Curzon Hall was then the science building. As they turned and came to the front of Curzon Hall, the young man saw in the distance a girl in a three-quarter sleeveless blouse and cotton sari. He asked his friends, who is this girl? Then her friends said, this is the first Muslim female student of Dhaka University. Then the young man says, really? I'll talk to this girl. Then he went a little further to talk to the young girl and her friends tied her up. Say, no, you don't go. We are not allowed to talk to girls in the university. If you talk to him without permission, you will be punished. The young man said, "I don't mind any restrictions, I don't care about any law." The young man walked and stood in front of the girl. Then he said, I heard you are the first Muslim female student of this university. What's your name The girl bowed her head and said, Fazilatunnesa. Asked, what subject do you study? Said, in mathematics. Where is the village house? #Tangail_kortia. Where do you live in Dhaka? Siddique Bazar. This time the young man said, you are the first Muslim female student of Dhaka University, I am very excited to talk to you. I will come to see you this evening. The girl left. All this was watching away from Assistant Proctor Sir. Exactly three days later. On December 29, 1928, a handwritten notice was drawn on the notice board of Kala Bhavan and Vigyan Bhaban in the name of the youth. His name was written, his father's name was written and the notification said, this young man is not allowed to enter Dhaka University for life.

After that this young man never came to Dhaka University again. The young man died in his old age on August 29, 1986. The young man who never entered Dhaka University was buried in Dhaka University after his death.

The name of that young man is the rebellious poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.

PS: The girl

Fazilatunnesa Zoha,

Poet Nazrul wrote the poem 'Barsha Biday' about him.

Born in Namdar Kumulli village of Tangail Sadar Police Station, Begum Faziltunnesa Zoha, a majestic woman, illuminated the international arena.

Begum Faziltunnesa Zoha was the first Muslim student of Dhaka University and the principal of Dhaka Eden College (1947-58). She was the first Bengali Muslim student to go abroad with a scholarship for higher education.

Begum Faziltunnesa is identified from the writings of Kazi Motahar Hossain ....

“Begum Faziltunnesa was neither an extraordinary beauty nor a blasphemous Manjubhasini. Was an MA in arithmetic and an eloquent girl

Begum Faziltunnesa was born in 1899 in the village of Namdar Kumulli of Sadar police station in Tangail district. Father's name is Wazed Ali Khan, mother's name is Halima Khatun.

Wazed Ali Khan was a minor school teacher.

Education

Wazed Ali Khan was only 6 years old

Faziltunnesa was admitted to Cortier Primary School. He matriculated in the first class in 1921 and passed IA in the first class in 1923 from Eden College. Fazilatunnesa graduated from Bethune College, Calcutta in 1925

Passed BA in first division.

First class in mathematics in 1928 from Dhaka University

Became First (Gold Medalist).

He then went to Billet in 1928 to pursue higher studies.

She is the first Muslim female graduate in all of Bengal. She was the first Muslim woman in the subcontinent to bring a degree from Bilat. The late Wazed Ali Khan Panni (Chand Mia), the zamindar of Kortia, gave him special encouragement and financial help in his studies.

During his stay in Billet

The first DPI among Indian Muslims.

Family

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While studying abroad, Fazilatunnesa met Zoha Sahib, son of Ahsan Ullah, a resident of Khulna. The two later tied the knot.

His outstanding contribution to the career

Returning from London in 1930, he first joined Calcutta as a school inspector. In August 1930, at the annual session of the Bengal Muslim Social Workers' Association held at the Albert Hall in Calcutta, she addressed the gathering as a woman.

Awakening has become a milestone.

"A lot has been said and done about the need for women's education," she told the session. Half of women society, the fullness of society can never be possible without women.

That is why this society has become so crippled today. He added,

The highest form of society is one in which every man and woman is free to develop his or her individuality and to enrich the society what is more characteristic of himself or herself.

Therefore, the main reason for the deterioration of this society is to keep women under house arrest and block the path of development of their individuality. I am talking so much about women's education today because it is to remove the flaws in the society.

If not, the society will never be built in a beautiful way. '

He joined Bethune College in 1935 as a professor of mathematics.

While working at Bethune College, he moved to Dhaka after partition and joined Eden College in 1947. Begum Fazilatunnesa Dhaka from 1947 to 1956

Eden was the principal of the college. With the tireless efforts of Begum Fazilatunnesa, Eden College was upgraded to the degree level with science and commerce departments.

On hearing the news, Begum Fazilatunnesa came to the college and reprimanded the inspector for entering the college premises without her permission.

Her various articles and stories were published in many magazines, including Saugat, on women's education and women's liberation.

Death

This wise woman died on 21 October 1986 in Dhaka. To preserve the memory of this majestic woman, Jahangirnagar University awarded Fazilatunnesa in 1966.

The name hall was built.