Meherbanu Khanam (Bengali: মেহেরবানু খানম; 1885 – 3 October 1925) was a Bengali artist and noblewoman. She was the daughter of Nawab Sir Khwaja Ahsanullah Bahadur and his wife Nawab Begum Kamrunnesa.[1][2]
Khanam send her paintings to The Moslem Bharat, a monthly magazine, where it was seen by Kazi Nazrul Islam, the future national poet of Bangladesh. Kazi Nazrul Islam being inspired by the painting wrote a poem, Kheyaparer Tarani. The paintings was published by the magazine along with the poem in the July–August 1920 edition. It was the first time a painting of a Muslim woman was published. Khanam opened Kamrunnessa Girls' High School in Dhaka with her sisters Akhtarbanu and Paribanu. The school was named after her mother. She patronized Jadu, a monthly Urdu magazine.[3]
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Khanam died on 3 October 1925 in Dhaka, East Bengal, British Raj.[3]
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^. nawabbari.com. Archived from the original on 25 November 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
^ abcHayat, Anupam. "Khanam, Meherbanu". Banglapedia. Retrieved 2 November 2017.
January 01, 1970
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