Sultana's Dream and Padmarag are boldly provocative works, particularly in the context of the era that spawned them. Written in English in 1905, Sultana's Dream is a delightful satirical work set in Ladyland, where men are in purdah and women firmly in charge of home and government. Published in 1924 and translated here for the first time, Padmarag complements Sultana's Dream in its espousal of women's personal journeys towards emancipation. Resonant with autobiographical undertones, the novella is both a powerful indictment of male oppression and a celebration of Rokeya's faith in a universalist society where women, regardless of race, class, creed and religion, reject the diktat of a tyrannical patriarchal society in favour of a life devoted to improving their lot.

Sultana's Dream and Padmarag

Literature & Fiction

Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat

Literary

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE INDIA PVT.LTD.

From 'Sultana's Dream', a conical work of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, to writings on women's status in a patriarchal set-up and her comments on 'feeble' Bengali society, this work will open up a factual, fictional, and fantastical-utopian world, which remained largely unknown and unheard outside Bengal.

Motichur: Sultana's Dream and Other Writings of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Roy, Ratri

Bandyopadhyay, Prantosh

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Sultana’s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopia—a tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world. "The Secluded Ones" is a selection of short sketches, first published in Bengali newspapers, illuminating the cruel and comic realities of life in purdah. Suggested for course use in: History Indian Literature South Asian Studies Utopian Fiction Women’s Studies Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880 - 1932) was a Bengali Muslim writer and feminist activist who founded the first Muslim girls’ school in Calcutta in 1911.

Sultana's Dream: And Selections from The Secluded Ones (A Feminist Press Sourcebook)

Contemporary

The Feminist Press at CUNY

Sultana's Dream

Sultana's dream

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Sultana's Dream is a story of a feminist Utopian, written in the early 20th century.

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