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Quasem, (Principal) Abul (1920-1991) language movement
activist, educationist and writer. Abul Quasem was born in 1920 at village
Chhedandi in Patia thana of Chittagong district. He passed Matriculation
examination from Barma High School in 1939, ISc from Chittagong College
in 1941, and obtained BSc (Hons) and MSc degree in Physics from Dhaka
University in 1944 and 1945 respectively. He joined the Dhaka University
in 1945 as a Lecturer in Physics, a position which he held till 1953 AD.
Abul Quasem was the founder of Tamaddun Majlish (1947), a literary
and cultural organisation which pioneered the demand for recognition
of Bangla as the state language of Pakistan through a booklet
entitled Pakistaner Rastra bhasa: Bangla na Urdu (The State
Language of Pakistan : Bangla or Urdu) published in 1947. He published
a Bangla weekly entitled Sainik in 1948, It was the organ
of Tamaddun Majlish and continued to be published till 1961.
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Abul Quasem |
He took active part in the language
movement as a member of the Rastra-bhasa Karma-parisad. Abul
Quasem was one of the founders of the Khilafat-e-Rabbani Party (1952).
He was elected a member of the East Bengal Provincial Assembly in 1954
from the Patia-Boalkhali constituency in Chittagong as a nominee of united
front. He felt the need of introducing Bangla as medium of
higher education in colleges and universities.
With this end in view he established the Bangla College
in Dhaka in 1962 and served the college as Principal till 1981. He devised
a model for the reorientation of spelling of Bangla words and the pattern
of Bangla scripts. Some of his publications are: Pakistaner Rastra-bhasa
(1947), Ekmatra Path (1949), Ghoshana (1952), Vibartanbad
(1952), Islam ki Diechhe ebang ki Ditay Parey (1952), Mukti
Kone Pathey (1952), Sreni-sangram (1953), Ekush Dafar Rupayan
(1955), Dooti Prasna (1955), Shasantrantrik Moolneeti (1955),
Sangathan (1964), Adhunik Chintadhara (1964), Islami
Rastra-neeti, Qoranic Arthaneeti. He died in Dhaka on 11 March 1991.
[Muazzam Hussain Khan] |
