Begum Zaffar Ali
Begum Zaffar Ali | |
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Born | 1901 |
Died | 1999 |
Occupation(s) | Educationist, Women's liberation activist |
Known for | Women's liberation, first woman matriculate of Kashmir |
Spouse | Agha Zaffar Ali Qizilbash |
Children | Agha Nasir Ali, Agha Shaukat Ali, Agha Ashraf Ali |
Parent | Khan Bahadur Aga Syed Hussain Thakur |
Relatives | Agha Shahid Ali (grandson), Syed Ahmed Aga (Brother) |
Awards | Padma Shri |
Begum Zaffar Ali, née Sahibzaadi Syeda Fatima,[1] was an Indian women's rights activist and the first woman matriculate of the Indian state of Kashmir and Jammu who went on to become Inspector of Schools in Kashmir.[2] She was an educationist, women's liberation activist, deputy director of education and later a legislator in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.[3] She was associated with the activities of the All India Women's Conference and was its secretary before partition, but a chance meeting with Muhammad Ali Jinnah and his sister, Fatima Jinnah in Kashmir, who would later visit the family for banquets, influenced her and she left the conference to concentrate her efforts in women's liberation movements in the pre-independent India.[3][4]
Biography
Begum Ali was born in 1901 to Khan Bahadur Aga Syed Hussain Thakur, Home and Judicial Minister during Maharaja
See also
- Kashmiri people
References
- ^ a b "Kandahar's Qizilbash". 30 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Kandahar's Qizilbash". 30 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Seven Influential Kashmiri Women". The Parallel Post. 22 March 2015. Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
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- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.