Farhat Banu

Farhat Banu was a Member of the Bengal Legislative Assembly, the largest legislature in the British Raj.

[6] She introduced The Orphanages and Widows Home Act inn 1944 in the Bengal Legislative Assembly.

[7] She gave a copy of the bill to Kumudini Basu, Secretary of the Nari Raksha Samiti.

[8] Farhat Banu was married to Khwaja Shahabuddin of the Dhaka Nawab family in 1912.

[9] 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.