Question

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain wrote a remarkable story titled 'Sultanas Dream' in 1905. This story imagined a woman called Sultana who reaches a place called 'Ladyland'. Ladyland is a place where women had the freedom to study, work, and create inventionslike controlling rain from the clouds and flying air cars.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is A True

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educationist, political activist, an advocate of women's rights, and widely regarded as a pioneer of women's liberation in South Asia. She wrote her feminist utopian story 'Sultana's Dream' in 1905. It was published in the same year in Madras-based English periodical 'The Indian Ladies Magazine'.

The story is based on an imagined Ladyland where women seem to have access to public spaces without being restricted by social or religious customs.