Badruddin Umar

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Badruddin Umar
বদরুদ্দীন উমর
Born (1931-12-20) 20 December 1931 (age 92)
British India
NationalityBangladeshi
Alma materUniversity of Dhaka
University of Oxford
Occupation(s)Marxist theorist, political activist, historian, writer, intellectual
Political partyCommunist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar)
ParentAbul Hashim (father)

Badruddin Umar (

political activist, historian, writer, intellectual and leader of the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar).[1] His father, Abul Hashim,[2] was a prominent politician in the Indian subcontinent
.

Early life, education, and career

Umar was born in

Rajshahi University as the founder-chair of the political science department. He also founded the department of sociology at the same university, but he resigned from his university positions during the hostile times of the then East Pakistan governor Abdul Monem Khan to become increasingly more active and engaged as a full-time leftist political activist and public intellectual to fight for the cause of oppressed peasants and workers in Bangladesh.[5]

Political activism

As a follower of Marxist–Leninist principles, Umar began writing anti-colonial articles from the 1970s. In the 1960s he wrote three groundbreaking books—Sampradayikata (Communalism, 1966),[6] Sanskritir Sankat (The Crisis of Culture, 1967), and Sanskritik Sampradayikata (Cultural Communalism, 1969)—that theorise the dialectics of the political culture of 'communalism' and the question of Bengali nationalism,[7] thus making significant intellectual contributions to the growth of Bengali nationalism itself. In 1969, Umar joined the

East Pakistan Communist Party, and from February 1970 to March 1971, Umar edited the mouthpiece of the East Pakistan Communist Party—Shaptahik Ganashakti—which published essays and articles about the problems and prospects of the communist movement in Pakistan
. He was president of both Bangladesh Krishak Federation (Bangladesh Peasant Federation) and Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir[8]—the country's oldest organisation of progressive writers, intellectuals, and cultural activists. Currently he is President of the Jatiya Mukti Council[1] (National Liberation Council).

Books

Umar has written nearly a hundred books and countless articles. The majority of his books discuss the problems and possibilities of the democratic and socialist

transformation of class society. He lucidly and thoroughly exposes the lumpenbourgeoisie's political culture in Bangladesh
. In his books he discusses a wide range of issues including the
Bengali Language Movement
and published a book on this topic.

Bibliography

Religious views

Badruddin Umar claimed in an interview that he has left Islam.[11] In that interview he said,

The misery of humans can't be explained if there is an all knowing, all seeing, all powerful Allah... Once a mother went to the hospital leaving her child outside. Coming out of the hospital she saw that her child is dead. What kind of test from Allah it was that He needed to kill that child? What was His intention? He testes the poor only... He gives the rich everything He wants in this life and all He wants to give to the poor is left due for afterlife...

References

  1. ^ a b Jatiya Mukti Council calls for lifting of emergency[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Razzaque, Rana (June 2006). "Abul Hashim As A Political Thinker". Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. Humanities. 51 (1). Archived from the original on 19 February 2012.
  3. ^ Mitra, Ashok (22 June 2009). "Abul Hashem Had a Point". The Telegraph (Opinion). Calcutta. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015.
  4. ^ "Shrabon Prokashani, author". Archived from the original on 22 January 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  5. ^ "Tribute to Badruddin Umar on his seventy-fifth birthday". New Age. Archived from the original on 30 July 2007. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  6. ^ "Communalism in Undivided Bengal: shrouding Class Conflict with Religion". Archived from the original on 16 October 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
  7. ^ The Emergence of Bangladesh
  8. ^ Morshed, Abul Kalam Manjoor (2012). "Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
  9. ^ "Shrabon Prokashani". Archived from the original on 22 January 2010. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
  10. ^ Micro-Credit : myth manufactured
  11. ^ "বেলা অবেলা সারাবেলা / বদরুদ্দীন উমর এবং আসাদুজ্জামান নূর। DeshTv (29:40 minutes)". YouTube. 19 November 2021. Retrieved 7 April 2024.

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