Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School

School in Comilla, Bangladesh

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Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School is a girls' school in Comilla, Bangladesh, established in 1873 by Faizunnesa Choudhurani, who would in 1889 be titled India's only female nawab by Queen Victoria. Faizunnesa, a wealthy zamindar, established Faizunnesa Girls' Pilot High School, having noted the need for female education which would accommodate Muslim girls practising purdah.^[1]^[2]^[3] The school taught its children in the local Bengali language rather than Urdu or Persian which were the standard languages of education at the time.^[4] The students also learned English.^[4] During the early years of its establishment, it was treated as the English medium school for girls. It was converted to a junior high school in 1889, and to a high school in 1931.^[5]

Notable alumni

Bidya Sinha Saha Mim - renowned Bangladeshi actress.
Santi Ghose, Indian nationalist^[6]

References

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^ ^a ^b Caudhurāṇī, Phaẏajunnesā (2009). Nawab Faizunnesa's Rupjalal. BRILL. pp. 6–. ISBN 9789004167803. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
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