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  "en": "Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain — Banglapedia"
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  "ar": "مدخل رقية سخاوات حسين في بنغلابيديا، الموسوعة الوطنية لبنغلاديش، بقلم شاهدة أختر؛ تُستخدم لوقائع الكيان فقط. يفصّل تعلّمها في البيت على يد إخوتها، وزواجها سنة 1898 من سيد سخاوات حسين ووفاته سنة 1909، وتأسيسها مدرسة سخاوات التذكارية للبنات في باغالبور سنة 1909 ثم في كلكتا سنة 1911 وإدارتها لها أربعة وعشرين عاما، وتأسيسها جمعية نساء الإسلام سنة 1916، ووفاتها في كلكتا في 9 ديسمبر 1932.",
  "en": "Entry 'Hossain, Roquiah Sakhawat' in Banglapedia, the national encyclopedia of Bangladesh, by Shahida Akhter; used for entity facts only. It details her home learning with her brothers' help, her marriage in 1898 to Syed Sakhawat Hossain and his death in 1909, her founding of the Sakhawat Memorial Girls' School at Bhagalpur in 1909 and at Calcutta in 1911 and her twenty-four years running it, her founding of the Anjuman-e-Khawatin-e-Islam in 1916, and her death at Calcutta on 9 December 1932."
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  "title": "Hossain, Roquiah Sakhawat",
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    "family": "Akhter",
    "given": "Shahida"
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  "publisher": "Banglapedia (Asiatic Society of Bangladesh), online edition consulted 25 October 2026",
  "URL": "https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Hossain,_Roquiah_Sakhawat",
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  "reliability_note": "A scholarly national encyclopedia entry, independent of Wikipedia in editorship; the English Wikipedia article in turn cites it throughout. Read in full on 25 October 2026. It styles her litterateur, educationist and social reformer who 'played a pioneering role in awakening Muslim women', spells her name Roquiah, gives her birth name as Roquiah Khatun and her literary name as Mrs RS Hossain, and adds detail the English article lacks or states more exactly: the school was started on 1 October 1909 at Bhagalpur with five students and set up at Calcutta at 13 Waliullah Lane on 16 March 1911 with eight students, upgraded to a Middle English school in 1917 and a High English school in 1931, with its moves to 13 European Asylum Lane (1931) and 162 Lower Circular Road (1932); its curriculum of Bangla, English, Urdu, Persian, home nursing, first aid, cooking, sewing, physical exercise and music; her arranging of horse-carriages so girls could travel in purdah and her training of teachers herself; the government's Muslim Women Training School at Calcutta set up in 1919 at her repeated urging; her two daughters who died in infancy; and the Anjuman's work paying girls' school costs, sheltering orphans and the destitute, aiding widows and setting up businesses for women's economic independence. It dates Sultana's Dream to 1908 (the English article's lead and works list give 1905, its marriage section 1908; both are recorded). It names no school for her.",
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