Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School

{{Infobox school

|name = Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School

|native_name = নবাব ফয়জুন্নেছা সরকারি বালিকা উচ্চ বিদ্যালয়

|image = Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School logo.jpg

|motto = Better Education For Better Citizen

|established = {{start date|1873}}

|students = About 2000

|city = Comilla

|country = Bangladesh

|coordinates = {{coord|23.4625|91.1771|region:BD_type:edu|display=inline,title}}

|campus = Comilla city centre

|sports = Cricket, football, badminton

|colors = {{Color box|Blue|border=darkgray}}{{Color box|White|border=darkgray}}

}}

File:Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School, Comilla, Bangladesh - front gate.jpg

Nawab Faizunnesa Government Girls' High School is a girls' school in Comilla, Bangladesh, established in 1873 by Faizunnesa Choudhurani, who would in 1889 be titled India's only female nawab by Queen Victoria. Faizunnesa, a wealthy zamindar, established Faizunnesa Girls' Pilot High School, having noted the need for female education which would accommodate Muslim girls practising purdah.{{cite book|last=Srivastava|first=Gouri|title=The Legend Makers: Some Eminent Muslim Women of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ERavqiLTu7cC&pg=PA10|access-date=18 January 2014|date=2003-01-01|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|isbn=9788180690013|pages=10–}}{{cite book|last=Lambert-Hurley|first=Siobhan|title=Muslim Women,, Reform and Princely Patronage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f64Y9aB-YxoC&pg=PA86|access-date=18 January 2014|date=2013-05-24|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134143474|pages=86–}}{{cite book|last=Ray|first=Bharati|title=Early Feminists of Colonial India: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VVYqAAAAYAAJ|access-date=18 January 2014|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195656978}} The school taught its children in the local Bengali language rather than Urdu or Persian which were the standard languages of education at the time.{{cite book|last=Caudhurāṇī|first=Phaẏajunnesā|title=Nawab Faizunnesa's Rupjalal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tesCwx1j95IC&pg=PA6|access-date=18 January 2014|year=2009|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004167803|pages=6–}} The students also learned English. During the early years of its establishment, it was treated as the English medium school for girls. It was converted to a junior high school in 1889, and to a high school in 1931.{{cite book|last=Amin|first=S N|title=The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VcAfpv6x0m4C&pg=PA150|access-date=18 January 2014|year=1996|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004106420|pages=150–}}