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After insisting on her own home, she devotes herself to her community by building a school, a hospital, and funding roads. She writes about love, giants, fairies, and marriage, earns recognition from Queen Victoria, and becomes the first female Nawab, refusing to be bullied—especially in matters of women’s education and voice.","The Writer and Philanthropist: Nawab  \nFaizunnesa  \nHerStory Foundation  \nইনäা সাখাওয়াত রােসল  \nOnce upon a time, in the British Raj, there lived a little girl who was very stubborn. Her name was Faizunnesa. She was a good daughter, and she did her chores and her homework on time. She was kind and helped the poor and the sick, and she never agreed to anything she did not believe in. Her superpower was the word NO!  \nSince Faizunnesa was a little girl, suitors came to her house asking for her hand in marriage. One suitor, in particular, came every year, and every year she would say No!  \nWhen Faizunnesa turned 29,she decided she was ready to say Yes, but only if he would agree to live in her house.  \nAnd so it was that they were married.  \nA few years later, her husband tricked Faizunnesa into coming to his house across the river with their daughters.  \n’Now you must live here,’he said. No! replied Faizunnesa.  \nFor seven days and seven nights they fought, and in the end, they decided to each live in their own house. Faizunnesa took one daughter and travelled back across the river, heartbroken .  \nFor the rest of her life, Faizunnesa worked hard to take care of her neighbors and the people who lived on her land. She built a school and a hospital and gave money to build roads. She also wrote a very good book about love, giants, fairies and marriage called Rupjalal. All her work did not go unnoticed: Queen Victoria in England heard about her and wanted to give her a special title: Begum (similar to the English ‘Madam’) .  \nNo! said Faizunnesa.  \nShe was already a Begum by birth. She wanted to be a Nawab (a governor) . The Queen had no choice but to make Faizunnesathe very first female Nawab in all the British Raj, making all the other Nawabs very angry.  \nFaizunnesa never let anyone bully her—not the Nawabs, not the Queen, not her husband.  \nShe wanted girls to learn, and so she built a school; she wanted women to be heard, and so she wrote books. Even today, you can visit the house where she was born and where she died. You can read her words, and from her story, you can learn the power of knowing your value… and the value of the little word No.  \nThis inspiring story is part of the HerStories collection originally created by the HerStory Foundation and adapted into individual books in collaboration with The Asia Foundation’s Let’s Read initiative.  \nFor more information about HerStory, please visit  \n[www.herstorybd.org](www.herstorybd.org)  \nBrought to you by  \nLet’s Read is a program of The Asia Foundation that supports early reading skills and habits to develop our next generation of critical thinkers and creative innovators in Asia and the Pacific.  \nTo read more books like this and get further information,  \nvisit: [letsreadasia.org](letsreadasia.org)  \nOriginal Story  \nThe Writer and Philanthropist: Nawab Faizunnesa. Author:  \nHerStory Foundation. Illustrator: ইনäা সাখাওয়াত রােসল . 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