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Aurat is a word which means "woman" in many Asian languages including Bengali, Hindi-Urdu, Persian, Punjabi, and Sorani Kurdish. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It occurs in Azerbaijani as "arvad" and Ottoman Turkish as "avret".
In 2019 Bangladesh's highest court ruled that on marriage registration forms, a word used to describe unmarried women that can also mean "virgin" must be replaced with a word that only means "an unmarried woman". [9] The official religion of Bangladesh is Islam and 90% of the population being Muslim. [10] [11]
Naree (English: Woman) is a 1992 Bangladeshi treatise book about feminism written by Humayun Azad. [1] The book was considered incendiary, and was banned on 19 November 1995, by the government of Bangladesh. Five years later, though, in 2000, the ban was lifted, following a legal battle that Azad won. [2]
Bengali Muslim families mostly use names of Arabic origin, followed by Farsi and Bengali. Among Muslims of Bangladesh, there are several different naming conventions. There is no fixed scheme for the structure of names. [1] Many people do not really use a family name, so members of a family can have different last names.
A Bengali woman in Dhaka clad in fine Bengali muslin, 18th century. Bengal became the basis of the Anglo-Mughal War . [ 117 ] [ 118 ] After the weakening of the Mughal Empire with the death of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, Bengal was ruled independently by three dynasties of Nawabs until 1757, when the region was annexed by the East India Company ...
Films about women in Bangladesh (5 P) H. History of women in Bangladesh (8 C, 4 P) M. Maternity in Bangladesh (1 C, 3 P) Women's ministers of Bangladesh (2 C)
Begum (also begüm, bagum, begom, begam, baigum or beygum) is an honorific title from Central and South Asia, often used by leading women in society, including royals, aristocrats, first ladies and prime ministers. [1] It is the feminine equivalent of the title baig or bey, which in Turkic languages means "higher official".
Feminism in Bangladesh seeks equal rights of women in Bangladesh through social and political change. Article 28 of Bangladesh constitution states that "Women shall have equal rights with men in all spheres of the State and of public life". [1] Sculpture of Begum Rokeya at Burdhwan House, Bangla Academy. She was a pioneer of women's liberation ...