‘Sultana’s Dream elucidates how Hossain through the creation of reverse hierarchy where men

are banished to the mardana while women rule the country, raised issues of women's education
and environment.

Islamic society observed strict purdah of women and they were confined in the zenana.

a woman's dream world where women get to be in charge for once in a futuristic society
called Ladyland where men are disenfranchised and women are privileged with good
educations
and good jobs.

The women scientists instead of devising military weapons, invent captivating machineries to
utilize the bounties of nature. The land is absolutely free from crime since the men are enclosed
in the mardana. Walking through Ladyland, Sultana learns how matriarchal power was
established after the women scientists defeated an enemy state with their scientific feats, when
men had failed.

Sultana’s Dream makes a departure from the contemporary endeavours at centering women's
educational reforms around how to become suitable mothers and wives, illustrating women's
education as a necessity in order to make them responsible citizens rather than commendable
housewives, for the gradual progress of the country.

It is interesting to note how Rokeya presents this entire departure of thought and practice as a
right of women to education rather than a privilege.

She further illustrates Ladyland as a country where women education is must, presence of
all-girls’ schools and colleges and marriages are not before the age of
twenty one. This endorsement of women education and them running the country acts as a
demonstration of woman power over male dominance.

One of the essential aspects of this story is the presentation of women as educated leaders of
the land during a time when education, especially the knowledge of English was imparted to
men.

(this English education was mostly restricted to a part of the society, majorly Hindus whereas
Muslims especially the Muslim women were restricted from it.)

The dream sequence in the story acts as an imagery towards the preservation of environment
and hints at the ecological mismanagement carried on by the imperial power. In Ladyland, there
are no road or railways, there is on the contrary a green carpet on which people walk.

Unlike colonial Bengal, where men think horticulture to be a waste of time, it is of immense
importance here and there is no use of coal or chimneys in the kitchen as cooking is done using
solar power, hence pollution is controlled. This entire structure of Ladyland might be read as a
territorial metaphor to reflect a shift from the colonial and thus a make pattern of land use.

From a more feminine perspective, religion becomes more similar. Rokeya argues in the story
that
men tend to focus on distinguishing themselves from the group through competition, which
means
that in religion, they tend to focus on dogmatic differences and who is 'right or wrong.

But in Ladyland, a more feminine mode of religion exists, one that heralds social unity across
religious and ethnic divides. The women, without the masculine bent toward competition, notice
the
similarities of their religions and summarize all religions in two practices: be as loving as you can
be, and be as forthright and honest as you can be.
religion is given attributes of ‘Love and Truth’ in which killing of another human being is
considered a crime. The Ladyland customs defy relations of kinship followed under male
dominated world.

Through Sultana’s Dream which was written during colonial rule, Rokeya attempts to highlight
the relevance of equality, women’s education and freedom. In addition to this, Rokeya through
this story, quite successfully ridicules patriarchal oppression faced by Muslim women.

Since the women

don't smoke nearly as many cigarettes, they managed to do in two hours what men took eight
hours
to accomplish.

at first glance the story may seem as recreating structures of domination and inequality, but
actually It attempts to make sexual role reversals in which men are shown as the inferior sex to
provides a critique of patriarchy and the effect of it on women’s lives and to provide women with
a lesson on self determination and worth.