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FATIMA BEGUM: A NARRATIVE OF UNSUNG HERO OF PAKISTAN MOVEMENT

Abstract

Creation of Pakistan has generally been attributed to some prominent political leaders. While building historiography of the great movement; efforts, works and sacrifices of some provincial and local leaders or workers had been neglected or overlooked. Fatima Begum was one of such unsung heroes without whose efforts ML could not become strong-rooted organization among women of Punjab and NWFP. This study reveals that she was central figure to motivate the women of the Punjab and NWFP to be active in politics. Besides it, this study proves that she was a great humanitarian who had worked a lot to settle victims of Bihar riots 1946 and of migrant women victims of partition of the Punjab’s episode. This paper has been produced on the basis of primary and secondary sources including some interviews of the students of Islamia College and of some followers of Fatima Begum. Archives of Pakistan Movement Workers Trust, Quaid-i-Azam Papers, magazines edited by Fatima Begum, newspapers and books are other important source material.

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