Shaista ikramullah biography of mahatma gandhi
Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was a Pakistani author, politician, diplomat and social-activist whose life bridges the late colonial and post-colonial.
শায়েস্তা একরামুল্লাহর এতগুলো পরিচয় যে ঠিক কোন পরিচয় দিলে যথাযথ হবে তা বোধগম্য হচ্ছে না। তিনি বাঙালি মুসলমান নারীদের মধ্যে প্রথম ডক্টরেটধারী, পাকিস্তানের প্রথম গণপরিষদের মাত্র দুইজন নারী সদস্যদের একজন, জাতিসংঘে প্রতিনিধিত্বকারী..
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah
Pakistani diplomat (1915–2000)
BegumShaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah (22 July 1915 – 11 December 2000) was a Bengali Pakistanipolitician, diplomat and author.[1] She was the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London.[2] She was Pakistan's ambassador to Morocco from 1964 to 1967, and a delegate to the United Nations,[1] calling for a more gender-inclusive language in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[3]
Family and education
Ikramullah was born as Shaista Akhtar Banu Suhrawardy into the Suhrawardy family to Hassan Suhrawardy and his wife Sahibzadi Shah Banu Begum.
Sahista's mother was Nawab Abdul Latif's granddaughter.[1]
She studied at Loreto College, Kolkata.[4] She was also the first Muslim woman to earn a PhD from the University of London.[2] Her doctorate thesis, "Development of the Urdu Novel and Short Story", was a critical survey of Urdu l