Gole Afroz
Gole Afroz | |
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| গোল-ই আফ্রোজ | |
 Afroz in the 1960s | |
| Nationality | Bangladeshi |
| Parents |
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| Relatives | Sarwar Azam (brother) |
| Family | Singranatore family |
Gole Afroz (1947 – 2015) was a Bangladeshi socialite and member of the Singranatore family, the wife of politician M. M. Rahmat Ullah. She was the eldest daughter of Gulbadan Begum of Natore and Shamez Uddin Ahmed and grand daughter of Jalaluddin Mirza.
Legacy[]
Gole Afroz being received by the people in Natore
The Gole Afroz College, the first public college in Singra (now under the Government of Bangladesh) was named in her honor during the provincial government of East Pakistan in 1970. After the war of 1971, a private college, the Rahmat Iqbal College was set up and named her second born son.[1][2]
Sources[]
- ^ Soszynski, Henry (1996). "Brief history of the Singranatore family". Australia: Genealogical Gleanings of the Indian Princely States. Archived from the original (Website) on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ Prothista Porichiti: Gole Afroz Shorkari Degree College 1996.
Categories:
- Bangladeshi women
- 1947 births
- 2015 deaths
- 21st-century Bengalis
- 20th-century Bengalis
- Bangladeshi people of Mughal descent