{{Short description|Bengali politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}{{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Farhat Banu | office1 = Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly | term_start1 = 1937 | term_end1 = 1945 | constituency1 = Women's (Dacca) | successor1 = Anwara Khatun<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.11657/page/n139/mode/2up|title=The Indian Year Book|editor=Reed, Sir Stanley|year=1947}}</ref> | birth_date = 24 October 1902 | birth_place = | death_date = 11 September 1984 | death_place = | party = | father = Khwaja Atiqullah | spouse = {{marriage |Khawaja Shahabuddin|1915|}} | children = {{Plainlist| * Tahera Kabir<ref>{{cite news |last=Huda |first=Sigma |date=25 November 2011 |title=In remembrance: Alamgir M. A. Kabir |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-211498 |newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref> * Khwaja Zakiuddin<ref>{{cite news |title=Khwaja Zakiuddin passes away |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/news/khwaja-zakiuddin-passes-away |newspaper=The Daily Star |date=18 January 2003}}</ref> * Khwaja Wasiuddin<ref>{{cite Banglapedia |author=Alamgir, Md. |article=Wasiuddin, Lt General Khwaja}}</ref>}} | bodyclass = | main_width = }} '''Farhat Banu''' was the daughter of Khwaja Atiqullah of the Dhaka Nawab family and granddaughter of Nawab Khwaja Ahsanullah, the third Nawab of Dhaka. She was a member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly in British India.
==Career== Farhat Banu was a Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly, the largest legislature in the British Raj.<ref name="fbb">{{cite news|last1=Wasiuddin|first1=Aneela|title=In memory of Lt General Khwaja Wasiuddin|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/tribute/memory-lt-general-khwaja-wasiuddin-1465729|accessdate=28 November 2017|work=The Daily Star|publisher=The Daily Star|date=22 September 2017|language=en}}</ref> She was also a member of the select committee and one 21 women members in that committee.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tripathi|first1=Dwijendra|title=State and Business in India: A Historical Perspective|date=1987|publisher=Manohar Publications|isbn=9788185054261|page=253|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7i7AAAAIAAJ&q=Farhat+Banu|language=en}}</ref> She introduced ''The Orphanages and Widows Home Act'' inn 1944 in the Bengal Legislative Assembly.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Halim|first1=M. Abdul|title=Social Welfare Legislation in Bangladesh|date=1993|publisher=Oihik|page=141|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4gblAAAAMAAJ&q=Farhat+Banu|accessdate=28 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> She gave a copy of the bill to Kumudini Basu, Secretary of the Nari Raksha Samiti.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Modern Review|date=1941|publisher=Modern Review Office.|page=610|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zEKuU1pkQU0C&q=Farhat+Banu|accessdate=28 November 2017|language=en}}</ref>
==Personal life== Farhat Banu was married to Khwaja Shahabuddin of the Dhaka Nawab family in 1912. Khwaja Shahabuddin was the Governor of Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan and served as a Minister in the Cabinet of Pakistan. Khwaja Shahabuddin died on 9 February 1977 in Karachi, Pakistan.<ref name="bptl">{{cite web|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Shahabuddin,_Khwaja|title=Shahabuddin, Khwaja|last1=Alamgir|first1=Mohammad|website=Banglapedia|accessdate=10 March 2016}}</ref> Her father was Nawabzada Khwaja Atiqullah was also a member of the Dhaka Nawab family and her uncle, Sir Khwaja Salimullah, was the Nawab of Dhaka. Her son was Lieutenant General Khwaja Wasiuddin.<ref name="fbb" /><ref>{{cite book|title=Banglapedia: national encyclopedia of Bangladesh|date=2003|publisher=Asiatic Society of Bangladesh|isbn=9789843205841|page=208|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ef1tAAAAMAAJ&q=Farhat+Banu|language=en}}</ref> Her another son was Khwaja Zakiuddin, a banker in East Pakistan. Zakiuddin was married to Begum Binoo Zakiuddin, they had two daughters Almas Zakiuddin and Yasmeen Murshed and one son Zahed Zakiuddin.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news/khwaja-zakiuddin-passes-away|title=Khwaja Zakiuddin passes away|date=18 January 2003|work=The Daily Star|accessdate=30 November 2017|language=en}}</ref> Her husband's niece, Hashmat Ara Begum, was married to Khondoker Fazle Sobhan, one of their son is, noted economist Rehman Sobhan.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/in-focus/the-economist-and-the-patriot-75436|title=In conversation with Professor Rehman Sobhan|date=4 April 2015|work=The Daily Star|accessdate=30 November 2017|language=en}}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Farhat Banu}} Category:20th-century Pakistani women politicians Category:Bengali politicians Category:Members of the Dhaka Nawab family Category:20th-century Bengali people Category:Bengal MLAs 1937–1945 Category:1977 deaths