Annette Beveridge

Annette Susannah Beveridge (née Akroyd) (13 December 1842 – 29 March 1929) was a British Orientalist known for her translation of the Humayun-nama[1] and the Babur-nama.

Around 1875, she was involved in a public controversy with Keshub Chandra Sen, an Indian philosopher and social reformer who attempted to incorporate Christian theology within the framework of Hindu thought.

Keshub Sen marrying off his own daughter at very young age also exposed his empty polemic against child marriage.

[5] Annette Beveridge translated the diaries of the first Mughal Emperor Babur, the Baburnama, publishing it in four books from 1912 to 1922.

The memoir had been written by his sister Gulbadan Begum, whom Beveridge affectionately called "Princess Rosebud".

Annette Akroyd with the students of Hindu Mahila Vidyalaya, 1875