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'''Anwara Khatun''' was a Bengali politician and member of provincial assembly.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2011-11-30 |title=Death anniversary |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-212251 |access-date=2022-12-17 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>

== Early life ==
Khatun was born in 1925 in [[Mirpur Model Thana]], [[Dhaka]], [[East Bengal]], [[British Raj]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Bari |first=Sarah Anjum |date=2020-02-21 |title=Anwara Khatun: The outspoken voice |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/supplements/amar-ekushey-2020/news/anwara-khatun-the-outspoken-voice-1871038 |access-date=2022-12-17 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> She was married off when she was six years old.<ref name=":0" /> She completed a bachelors in law and another in technology after which she completed her Masters in Art.<ref name=":0" />

== Career ==
Khatun was elected to the [[Bengal Legislative Assembly]] in 1946.<ref name=":0" /> She had hosted [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]] at her house when he came to Dhaka in 1948.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mujibur Rahman |first=Sheikh |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/840484565 |title=The unfinished memoirs |date=2012 |isbn=978-0-670-08546-0 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=114-115 |oclc=840484565}}</ref> She was invited to join the [[Shorbodolio Rashtrabhasha Shangram Parishad]] by [[Kazi Golam Mahbub]].<ref name=":0" /> She was an activist of the [[Bengali language movement]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |title=History seems indifferent to 'her tale' |url=https://www.observerbd.com/2015/02/16/72861.php |access-date=2022-12-17 |work=The Daily Observer}}</ref> She spoke in the assembly against the death of students protesting for making Bengali a state language of Pakistan in police action.<ref name=":1" /> She was expelled from the Muslim League.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nair |first=M. B. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25108872 |title=Politics in Bangladesh : a study of Awami League, 1949-58 |date=1990 |publisher=Northern Book Centre |isbn=81-85119-79-1 |location=New Delhi |pages=57 |oclc=25108872}}</ref> She attended the conference in [[Rose Garden Palace|Rose Garden]] which led to the creation of Awami League.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mujibur Rahman |first=Sheikh |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/840484565 |title=The unfinished memoirs |date=2012 |isbn=978-0-670-08546-0 |location=New Delhi, India |pages=129 |oclc=840484565}}</ref>

Khatun was re-elected to the to the [[East Bengal Provincial Assembly]] in 1954 as a candidate of the United Front.<ref name=":0" />

Khatun led the [[Awami League]] in 1966 when the male leadership party was imprisoned.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Joseph |first=Suad |url=https://books.google.com.bd/books?id=4Uyypm6T7ZsC&pg=PA54&dq=Anwara+Khatun&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjutY3duf_7AhWEjeYKHTayDzUQ6AF6BAgBEAI#v=onepage&q=Anwara%20Khatun&f=false |title=Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures: Family, Law and Politics |last2=Naǧmābādī |first2=Afsāna |date=2003 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-12818-7 |pages=54 |language=en}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Khatun's husband, Ali Amzad Khan, was a founder of the Awami League.<ref name=":0" />

== Death ==
Khatun died in 1988.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-11-30 |title=Anwara Khatun's anniversary of death today |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/city/anwara-khatuns-anniversary-death-today-1498330 |access-date=2022-12-17 |work=The Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:1925 births]]
[[Category:1988 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Dhaka]]
[[Category:Politicians from Dhaka]]
[[Category:Awami League politicians]]
[[Category:20th-century Bangladeshi women politicians]]

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