Sardar Fazlul Karim | |
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Native name | সরদার ফজলুল করিম |
Born | Atipara, Backergunge District, Bengal Presidency (now Barisal District, Bangladesh) | 1 May 1925
Died | 15 June 2014 | (aged 89)
Occupation | Academic, philosopher, translator, political activist, essayist |
Nationality | Bangladeshi |
Alma mater | Dacca University |
Genre | essay, translation |
Notable awards | |
Member of the 2nd National Assembly of Pakistan | |
In office 1955–1958 | |
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, [1] [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. [3]
He completed his Intermediate of Arts (IA) at Dhaka Intermediate College in 1942. [3] 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] [6] 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. [6]
Karim wrote scholarly books on philosophy, among them his দর্শনকোষ (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). He has translated Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau and Engels.
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: | |||
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* দর্শনকোষ | Darshankosh | (Bengali Encyclopedia of Philosophy) | - |
* শহীদ জ্যোতির্ময় গুহঠাকুরতা স্মারকগ্রন্থ | - | (-) | - |
* সেই সে কাল:কিছু স্মৃতি কিছু কথা | - | (-) | - |
* ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় ও পূর্ববঙ্গীয় সমাজঃ অধ্যাপক আব্দুর রাজ্জাকের আলাপচারিতা | - | (-) | - |
* চল্লিশের দশকের ঢাকা | - | (-) | - |
* নানা কথা | - | (-) | - |
* নানা কথার পরের কথা | - | (-) | - |
* নূহের কিশতী ও অন্যান্য প্রবন্ধ | - | (-) | - |
* রুমীর আম্মা ও অন্যান্য প্রবন্ধ | - | (-) | - |
* গল্পের গল্প | - | (-) | - |
*পাঠ-প্রসঙ্গ | Paath Proshanga | (On Reading) | - |
* আরেক যুগে যুগোস্লাভিয়ায় | - | (-) | - |
Karim received the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1976, [6] and the Independence Day Award in 2000. [9]