Sardar Fazlul Karim Explained

Sardar Fazlul Karim
Native Name:সরদার ফজলুল করিম
Birth Date:1925 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Atipara, Backergunge District, Bengal Presidency
Occupation:Academic, philosopher, translator, political activist, essayist
Alma Mater:Dacca University
Nationality:Bangladeshi
Genre:essay, translation
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Office1:Member of the 2nd National Assembly of Pakistan
Term Start1:1955
Term End1:1958

Sardar Fazlul Karim (Bengali: সরদার ফজলুল করিম; 1 May 1925 – 15 June 2014) was a Bangladeshi academic, philosopher and essayist.[1] [2]

Early life and family

Sardar Fazlul Karim was born on 1 May 1925, to a lower middle class family in the village of Atipara located in the Backergunge District of the Bengal Presidency (present-day Wazirpur Upazila, Barisal District, Bangladesh). His father, Khabiruddin Sardar,[3] was a farmer, and his mother, Safura Begum, was a housewife. He had one brother and three sisters, and they grew up in the village.[4]

Education

When Karim was a high school student, Saratchandra Chatterjee's novel Pather Dabi (Demand for a Pathway) inspired him to dream of a revolution.[5] He matriculated from Barisal Zilla School in 1940.

He completed his Intermediate of Arts (IA) at Dhaka Intermediate College in 1942. He then became a student of Dacca University, initially studying English but soon shifting to philosophy because Haridas Bhattacharya's class lectures had attracted him.[5] He earned an honors BA, and in 1946, an MA.[6]

Career

In 1954, while in prison, he was elected to the East Bengal Legislative Assembly as a Jukto Front candidate.[7] He was released in 1955 by the United Front government.[5]

He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1955.[8] Arrested again during martial law, he was released in 1962.[5]

He left politics in 1963 and joined the translation section of the Bangla Academy.[5] From 1969 to 1971 he directed the academy's cultural section.[5]

In 1972, after Bangladesh won its independence, he rejoined Dacca University as a professor of political science.

Karim wrote scholarly books on philosophy, among them his দর্শনকোষ (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). He has translated Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau and Engels.

Published work

Bengali Translation:

  • প্লেটোর রিপাবলিক
Plator Republic(Republic by Plato)-
  • প্লেটোর সংলাপ
Plator Republic(Plato's Dialogues)-
  • এরিস্টোটল-এর পলিটিক্স
Aristotler Politics(Politics by Aristotle)-
  • এঙ্গেলস্‌-এর এ্যান্টি ডুরিং
Engelser Anti-Dühring (Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels)-
  • রুশোর- সোশ্যাল কন্ট্রাক্ট
Rousseaur Social Contract(Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau)-
  • রুশোর- দি কনফেশনস
Rousseaur The Confessions(The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau)-
Memoirs, essays and others:
  • দর্শনকোষ
Darshankosh(Bengali Encyclopedia of Philosophy)-
  • শহীদ জ্যোতির্ময় গুহঠাকুরতা স্মারকগ্রন্থ
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  • সেই সে কাল:কিছু স্মৃতি কিছু কথা
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  • ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় ও পূর্ববঙ্গীয় সমাজঃ অধ্যাপক আব্দুর রাজ্জাকের আলাপচারিতা
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  • চল্লিশের দশকের ঢাকা
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  • নানা কথা
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  • নানা কথার পরের কথা
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  • নূহের কিশতী ও অন্যান্য প্রবন্ধ
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  • রুমীর আম্মা ও অন্যান্য প্রবন্ধ
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  • গল্পের গল্প
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  • পাঠ-প্রসঙ্গ
Paath Proshanga(On Reading)-
  • আরেক যুগে যুগোস্লাভিয়ায়
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Recognition

Karim received the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1976, and the Independence Day Award in 2000.[9]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Sardar Fazlul Karim's 86th birthday today . 12 December 2011 . The Daily Star . 1 May 2011.
  2. News: People bid farewell to Sardar Fazlul Karim . The Daily Star . 16 June 2014.
  3. Book: Hossain . Selina . Islam . Nurul . Hossain . Mobarak . 2000 . Bangla Academy Dictionary of Writers . Bangla Academy . 159 . 984-07-4052-0.
  4. বাংলা একাডেমী চরিতাভিধান
  5. News: Haque . Junaidul . The life of a man of commitment . 12 December 2011 . The Daily Star . 6 October 2007.
  6. Book: Iqbal . Shahryar . 1997 . Sheikh Mujib in Parliament (1955-58) . Agamee Prakashani . 415–416 . 984-401-385-2.
  7. News: Sardar Fazlul Karim passes away . The Daily Star . 15 June 2014.
  8. Book: Ahmad, Iftikhar . 1976 . Pakistan General Elections: 1970 . South Asian Institute, Punjab University . 120 . 3933811.
  9. Web site: 2000 award . 2013-06-26 . Cabinet Division . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706132334/http://www.cabinet.gov.bd/view_award.php?year_select=2000&Submit=GO&lang=en . 2011-07-06 . dead.