| 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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Sardar Fazlul Karim (Bengali: সরদার ফজলুল করিম; 1 May 1925 – 15 June 2014) was a Bangladeshi academic, philosopher and essayist.[1] [2]
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]
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]
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.
Bengali Translation:
| Plator Republic | (Republic by Plato) | - |
| Plator Republic | (Plato's Dialogues) | - |
| Aristotler Politics | (Politics by Aristotle) | - |
| Engelser Anti-Dühring | (Anti-Dühring by Friedrich Engels) | - |
| Rousseaur Social Contract | (Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau) | - |
| Rousseaur The Confessions | (The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau) | - |
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| Darshankosh | (Bengali Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | - |
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Karim received the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1976, and the Independence Day Award in 2000.[9]