Sughra Humayun Mirza
Indian social reformer and writer
Sughra Humayun Mirza (1884 – 1958), also known as Begum Sughra, was a social reformer, Urdu writer and traveller from Hyderabad, India. She is known as one of the founding figures of women's writing in Urdu and believed to be Hyderabad's first female novelist, having written 14 major novels.
Early life and education
Mirza was born in December 1884 in the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad, India. She came from an educated, migrant, Shia Muslim family who had settled in Hyderabad and served the state. Her father, Safdar Ali Mirza, served as a surgeon in the Nizam's Army. Her mother, Maria Begum, was a scholar of Arabic and Persian languages. Her grandfather was from Turkey, and her maternal family was from Iran.
Sughra was homeschooled in Urdu and Persian. At the age of 16, she married Humayun Mirza, a prosperous barrister from Patna, who moved to Hyderabad.
Career
Literary work
Mirza was a prominent Urdu language writer of her time and wrote travel accounts, novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.
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