1. Abul Hashim was a Bangladeshi politician and Islamic thinker.
14 Facts About Abul Hashim
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Abul Hashim was born on 25 January 1905 to a Bengali family of Muslim zamindars in the village of Kashiara in the Burdwan district of the Bengal Presidency.
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Abul Hashim was the son of politician Abul Kasem and grandnephew of Nawab Abdul Jabbar.
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Abul Hashim graduated from Burdwan Raj College in 1928, which was then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, and earned a law degree in 1931 from the same university.
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Abul Hashim was the father of Bangladeshi leftist politician and writer Badruddin Umar.
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Abul Hashim started his political activity with the Muslim League hoping to free Bengal from the political manoeuvrings and the economic exploitations of the non-Bengali landlords and capitalists, like the Khwajas and the Ispahanis respectively.
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Abul Hashim took part in the election to the Bengal Legislative Council in 1936, and participated in the All India Muslim League conference at Allahabad in 1938.
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Abul Hashim participated in Muslim League's Lahore conference in 1940.
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Abul Hashim was critical of Jinnah's vision of East Pakistan, the modern day Bangladesh.
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Abul Hashim maintained a political proximity with Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and was active in Pakistan Movement.
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Abul Hashim participated in the United Bengal movement in 1947, and on 12 May 1947 he together with Sarat Bose met Mahatma Gandhi to discuss the United Bengal scheme and received his blessings.
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In 1950, Abul Hashim decided to move to East Pakistan and settled in Dhaka.
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In 1940, Abul Hashim began to experience problems with his eyesight, and his condition worsened in 1950 when he became completely blind.
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Abul Hashim was a founding member of Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology, a constitutional body established in 1962 by Ayub Khan that exists to this day to advise on the Islamisation of the Pakistani state.