Jahanara Imam born in a conservative Muslim Family of Murshidabad (India)in 1929., received a liberal education. She held a Master's degree in Bengali language and literature and a Bachelor's degree in Education from Dhaka University. She has spent a significant part of her life as an educationist. She visited the United States in 1964-65 as a Fulbright scholar and again in 1977 under the International Visitors Programme at the invitation of the government of the United States. Ms. Imam passed away in 1994.