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| name =Azizunnessa Khatun<br />
|birth_place = [[Parganas]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />{{small|(now in [[India]])}}<br />
| occupation = Poet<br>Writer<br>Philanthropist<br />
| nationality = Bengali<br />
|alma_mater =[[St. Xavier's College, Kolkata|St. Xavier's College]]<br />
| genre =Poetry<br />
}}<br />
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'''Azizunnessa Khatun''' (1864–1940) was an Indian poet, writer, and philanthropist.<ref>{{cite book|last1=India)|first1=Bethune School (Calcutta|title=Education and empowerment: women in South Asia|date=2001|publisher=Bethune School Praktani Samiti|isbn=9788186263198|page=101|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7cqeAAAAMAAJ&q=Azizunnessa+Khatun|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Azizunnessa was born in 1864 in [[24 Parganas]], [[Bengal Presidency]], British India. Her father Mir Chand Ali was a Police Inspector. Her family was originally from Goadi-Krishnanagar in [[Nadia district]]. She was home taught where she learned [[Arabic]], Bengali, English, and [[Persian language|Persian]]. She married Mokaddesul Haque, who was from Bansdaha, while she was still in her teens. Haque encouraged Azizunnessa to continue her education.<ref name="KA">{{cite web|last1=Amin|first1=Nurul|title=Khatun, Azizunnesa|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Khatun,_Azizunnesa|website=Banglapedia|access-date=7 November 2017}}</ref><br />
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Azizunnessa studied with Professor Mairajuddin of [[St. Xavier's College, Kolkata]], who helped her study English and Bengali. After Mokaddesul Haque died she married Hamidullah Khan, who was the zamindar of [[Tetulia Upazila|Tetulia]]. After Hamidullah Khan died she married Kazi Lutfor Rahman who was also from Bansdaha. She did not have any children. She was philanthropist. She funded the digging of ponds so that villagers could have access to clean water. She founded a girls school. She translated a work by the Anglo-Irish poet [[Thomas Parnell]], which she named Udasin Kavya in 1884. Her works were published in a number of magazines. She died in 1940.<ref name="KA" /><br />
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