Duke and Duchess of Marlborough request the pleasure of the company of Begum Liaquat Ali Khan at Blenheim Palace on June 7th 1953. Original autograph document.
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock England: Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, 1953. Imprinted card with handwritten name of the Begum. Stains in corners ...
....The personal copy of
Begum Ra’ana Liaquat Ali Khan (1905–1990), who was a Pakistani diplomat and the country’s first female governor.....
She was born Sheila Irene Pant on 13 February 1905 in Almora, British India (today’s India), to a Brahmin family who had converted to Christianity two generations prior......
Academically brilliant, she graduated from the University of Lucknow in 1927 with bachelor’s degrees in economics and theology. She obtained a double master’s degree in economics and sociology in 1929. In 1931, she became professor of economics at Indraprastha College in Delhi, where she met her future husband, lawyer Liaquat Ali Khan, when he visited to deliver a lecture on law......
The couple married in 1932, despite her family’s objection. The bride converted to Islam and took the name Begum Ra’ana. She became involved with the Muslim League, devoting herself to creating political consciousness among the Muslim women in British India......
After the Partition in 1947, Liaquat Ali Khan became Pakistan’s first prime minister. As the first First Lady of Pakistan, Begum Ra’ana founded or helped establish organisations that uplifted women’s rights and women’s public role, such as the Pakistan Women’s National Guard (PWNG), the Women’s Naval Reserves and All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA). Item #51-6956
Price: $150.00