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Rahman, Mukhlesur (1924-1993) an art historian. He was born on 1 February, 1924 in village Mugbelai of
kamarkhanda
upazila in sirajganj district. His father, Maulavi Mizanur Rahman, was a police officer.
Mukhlesur Rahman started his education in Vaidya Dogachi
Primary School in Kamarkhanda upazila and Middle English School of Burdwan
and passed the Entrance Examination in 1938 from Bengal Nagpur High School
of Kharagpur.
He then went to Ripon College (present Surendranath College)
of Calcutta, from where he passed his IA in 1940. He passed his
BA Honours in History from the Scottish Church College in 1943
and got his MA in Islamic History and Culture from the Calcutta
University in 1945. He got his PhD in 1965 from the School of
Oriental and African Studies of London University. The title of
his thesis was 'The Origin, Development and Iconography of Mahadevi
Durga in Indian Hindu Religion'.
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Mukhlesur Rahman |
He served in the Civil Supply Department for about five
years before joining the rajshahi
college as a Lecturer in Islamic History and Culture in 1950.
He joined the university
of rajshahi in 1958 and was appointed the Honourary Curator
of the varendra
research museum on 16 April 1959. When the museum came under
the administrative control of Rajshahi University in 1964 he continued
as a part time curator till August 1969. In 1974 he was appointed the
Director of the Museum and was made the Professor of Art History in the
same organisation in 1982. He continued in the service of the museum till
31 January 1986.
He was an able organiser and a successful teacher. Under
his able guidance the museum got a new life and he published and edited
its Journal, Journal of the Varendra Research Museum. He earned
reputation as a researcher in various branches of art history and he has
to his credit more than 50 research articles on history, literature and
museology published in journals of home and abroad. Matrka and
Prthvimata o anyanya pravandha are two of his books published in
Bangla. But his best work is the Sculpture in the Varendra Research
Museum: A Descriptive Catalogue, published four years after his death
in 1998. Mukhlesur Rahman died on 18 December 1993. [Md Muktadir Arif
Mozammel]
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