(When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's diaries came to light in 200...)
When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's diaries came to light in 2004, it was an indisputably historic event. His daughter, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, had the notebooks their pages by then brittle and discoloured- carefully transcribed and later translated from Bengali into English. Written during Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's sojourns in jail as a state prisoner between 1967 and 1969,they begin with his recollections of his days as a student activist in the run-up to the movement for Pakistan in the early 1940s. They cover the Bengali language movement, the first stirrings of the movement for Bangladesh independence andself-rule, and powerfully convey the great uncertainties as well as the great hopes that dominated the time. The last notebook ends with the events accompanying the struggle for democratic rights in 1955. These are Sheikh Mujib's own words-the language has only been changed for absolute clarity when required. What the narrative brings out with immediacy and passion is his intellectual and political journey from a youthful activist to the leader of a struggle for national liberation. Sheikh Mujib describes vividly how-despite being in prison-he was in the forefront of organizing the protests that followed the declaration of Urdu as the state language of Pakistan. On 21 February 1952 the police opened fire on a peaceful student procession killing many. That brutal action unleashed the powerful movement that culminated in the birth of the new nation of Bangladesh in 1971.
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(When Sheikh Mujibur Rahmans diaries came to light in 200...)
When Sheikh Mujibur Rahmans diaries came to light in 2004, it was an indisputably historic event. His daughter, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, had the notebookstheir pages by then brittle and discolouredcarefully transcribed and later translated from Bengali into English. Written during Sheikh Mujibur Rahmans sojourns in jail as a state prisoner between 1967 and 1969, they begin with his recollections of his days as a student activist in the run-up to the movement for Pakistan in the early 1940s. They cover the Bengali language movement, the first stirrings of the movement for Bangladesh independence and self-rule, and powerfully convey the great uncertainties as well as the great hopes that dominated the time. The last notebook ends with the events accompanying the struggle for democratic rights in 1955. These are Sheikh Mujibs own wordsthe language has only been changed for absolute clarity when required. What the narrative brings out with immediacy and passion is his intellectual and political journey from a youthful activist to the leader of a struggle for national liberation. Sheikh Mujib describes vividly howdespite being in prisonhe was in the forefront of organizing the protests that followed the declaration of Urdu as the state language of Pakistan. On 21 February 1952 the police opened fire on a peaceful student procession, killing many. That brutal action unleashed the powerful movement that culminated in the birth of the new nation of Bangladesh in 1971. This extraordinary document is not only a portrait of a nation in the making; it is written by the man who changed the course of history and led his people to freedom.
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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born into a middle-class Muslim family on March 17, 1920, in Tungipara, a village in Gopalganj District in the province of Bengal in British India, to Sheikh Lutfur Rahman, a serestadar, an officer responsible for record-keeping at the Gopalganj civil court. He was born into a native Bengali family as the third child in a family of four daughters and two sons.
In 1929, Mujib entered into class three at Gopalganj Public School, and two years later, class four at Madaripur Islamia High School.
However, Mujib withdrew from school in 1934 to undergo eye surgery, and returned to school only after four years, owing to the severity of the surgery and slow recovery
He returned to East Pakistan in 1947, where he studied law at Dacca University.
In 1953 he was chosen general secretary of the Awami League. Elected to the provincial assembly in 1954, he soon relinquished that office to reorganize the league.
But when Marshal Ayub Khan established a military dictatorship in 1958, Sheikh Mujib assumed a prominent opposition role, for which he was twice imprisoned, and the Awami League was temporarily banned. During the middle 1960's, Sheikh Mujib worked to revive and strengthen the league.
The central government, claiming that he was provoking separatism, arrested him in 1966. After holding him for nearly two years, it freed him in order to allay public opinion. In the late 1960's popular discontent throughout Pakistan became widespread as various groups campaigned for a restoration of civil liberties and an end to regional favoritism.
Marshal Ayub Khan resigned in 1969 and transferred power to General Yahya Khan, who scheduled national elections for December 1970. The Awami League, openly advocating autonomy for East Pakistan, won an overwhelming legislative majority in East Pakistan, as well as a majority in the national legislature. President Yahya Kahn then postponed the opening of the national assembly, and Sheikh Mujib launched a nonviolent, noncooperation campaign against the central government. The Pakistani army intervened, arrested Sheikh Mujib in March 1971, and interned him in West Pakistan. In the meantime a bloody civil war had erupted in East Pakistan, which the East Pakistani nationalists had declared independent as Bangladesh.
By December, assisted by India, they had defeated the Pakistani army, consisting almost exclusively of West Pakistanis, and the independence of Bangladesh was assured. Sheikh Mujib was elected president of Bangladesh while still in custody. After being released in December 1971, Sheikh Mujib returned to Bangladesh in January 1972.
At that time he relinquished the presidency and became prime minister. In January 1975 he again became president and concentrated all executive power in that office. Sheikh Mujib was overthrown and killed in a coup in Dacca, on August 15, 1975.
He was a father of the country of Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan), and its first president and prime minister.
In the meantime a bloody civil war had erupted in East Pakistan, which the East Pakistani nationalists had declared independent as Bangladesh.
In 1949 he helped found the Awami League, formed to oppose the Muslim League administration that favored West Pakistan at the expense of less developed East Pakistan with its Bengali population.
(When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's diaries came to light in 200...)
(When Sheikh Mujibur Rahmans diaries came to light in 200...)
As a student in India he became active in politics and participated in the Pakistani independence movement.
Quotations: "The struggle now is the struggle for our emancipation; the struggle now is the struggle for our independence. Joy Bangla!. .Since we have given blood, we will give more blood. God-willing, the people of this country will be liberated . .. Turn every house into a fort. Face (the enemy) with whatever you have. "
Mujib sought Bangladesh's membership in the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and the Islamic Development Bank and made a significant trip to Lahore in 1974 to attend the OIC summit, which helped repair relations with Pakistan to an extent.
Sheikh Mujib was 13 years old when he got married to his paternal cousin Sheikh Fazilatunnesa who was only 3 and just lost her parents, so her (and Sheikh Mujib's) grandfather, Sheikh Abdul Hamid, had commanded his son Sheikh Lutfar Rahman to marry his son Sheikh Mujib to her.
Together they had two daughters—Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Rehana—and three sons—Sheikh Kamal, Sheikh Jamal, and Sheikh Rasel.
