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'''Daulatunnessa Khatun''' ({{Langx|bn|দৌলতুন্নেছা খাতুন}}; 1918–1997) was a Bengali politician, social activist, feminist and former Member of East Bengal Legislative Assembly.<ref name="bhyhc">{{cite web|last1=Amin|first1=Sonia|title=Khatun, Daulatunnessa|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Khatun,_Daulatunnessa|website=Banglapedia|access-date=24 December 2016}}</ref>
==Early life==
Khatun was born in 1918 in [[Sonatala Upazila|Sonatala]], [[Bogra District|Bogra]], [[East Bengal]], [[British Raj]]. She was married to Hafizur Rahman, a doctor, when she was 8 years old. She studied till she was 12 at Dhaka [[Eden Mohila College|Eden High School]]. She continued her education in her husband's house despite social pressures against women's education.<ref name="bhyhc" />
==Career==
In 1930, at the age of 12, she joined the [[Mohandas KaramChand Gandhi|Gandhi]]'s [[Civil disobedience movement]]. She formed Gaibandha Mahila Samiti' (Gaibandha Women's Association) with like minded women in [[Gaibandha District|Gaibandha]]. She was one of the few Muslim women activist who participated in the movement, organising women's meetings and rallies. She studied until finishing her Undergraduate. She and her husband were forced to leave their home in Gaibandha because of her activism.<ref name="bhyhc" /><ref>{{cite book |last=Amin |first=S. N. |year=1996 |title=The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VcAfpv6x0m4C&q=Daulatunnessa+Khatun&pg=PA154 |publisher=BRILL |location= |pages=154 |isbn=90-04-10642-1 |quote=}}</ref>
She was arrested by the British Raj. During the [[1943 Bengal Famine]] she founded an orphanage. After the partition of India she settled in Dhaka. She was elected to the East Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1954, through active voting of women. In 1956 she was part of an official delegation of Pakistan to China.<ref name="bhyhc" />
==Death==
She died in 1997 in Gaibandha, Bangladesh.<ref name="bhyhc" />
==References==
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