A trailblazer for women in politics: Remembering Noor Jehan Murshid

Few Muslim women received an education and fewer still entered regional or national politics when Noor Jehan was born in the village of Taranagar in the District of Murshidabad on May 22, 1925. The fourth of seven daughters and two sons, her arrival may have disappointed her father, Ayub Hossein Beg, a daroga at Lalgola Police Station.