تلخیص
The story of the crusade for female education among Indian Muslims has furnished enough
examples of capable women, who educated at home or in schools, to challenge the
stereotypical image of the veiled women as untouched by the social forces of change. In the
early twentieth century, Atiya Fayzee was one such force who portrayed an image of a
modern educated women” , later many educated Muslim women joined her in leaving
purdah (veil). Many of them belonged to elite families, descendants of reformers or women
from cultured families, who used their qualification to give expression to a distinctly
feminine, if not feminist viewpoint in Colonial India
Amna Latif , Rukhsana Iftikhar. (2019) Challenges of Colonial Education (women) and Response of Atiya Fayzee, Journal of Indian Studies, Volume 5, Issue 2.
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