Nilima Ibrahim


Nilima Ibrahim was an Indian, East Pakistani, and later Bangladeshi educationist, littrateur and social worker. She is well known for her scholarship on Bengali literature but even more so for her depiction of raped and tortured women in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War in her book Ami Birangona Bolchhi .

Nilima was born onJanuary 1921 in Bagerhat, Khulna to Zamindar Prafulla Roy Chowdhury and Kusum Kumari Devi. Nilima passed her school leaving examination and entrance level examinations from the Khulna Coronation Girls School in 1937 and from the Victoria Institution in Calcutta in 1939. Later she earned bachelors degrees in arts and teaching from the Scottish Church College, which was followed by an MA in Bengali literature from the University of Calcutta in 1943. She would also earn a doctorate in Bengali literature from the University of Dhaka in 1959.

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