18 Facts About Abul Kashem

Mohammad Abul Kashem is generally considered as a pioneer and the architect of the historic Language Movement of Bangladesh.

Abul Kashem was a politician, author and an eminent educationist.

Abul Kashem founded the Islamic-oriented Bengali cultural organisation Tamaddun Majlish.

In 1939, Abul Kashem obtained his Matriculation Examination from Boroma Trahi Menka High School with first class and Government district scholarship.

Abul Kashem passed Isc from Chittagong government College in 1941 with first class.

Abul Kashem completed his master's thesis under the supervision of the famous mathematician and physicist Satyendra Nath Bose.

Abul Kashem was associated with the literary and cultural activities of Bangladesh for five decades.

Abul Kashem contributed in the movement for recognition of Bengali as one of the state languages of Pakistan soon after the independence of Pakistan in 1947.

Abul Kashem actively participated in organising a countrywide strike on 11 March 1948, to press for the language demand.

Abul Kashem began his career as a lecturer in the Physics department at Dhaka University in 1946.

Abul Kashem was co-founders of the Khilafat-e-Rabbani Party in 1952.

Abul Kashem was a member of the provincial assembly as a United Front nominee in 1954 from the Patia-Boalkhali constituency in Chittagong.

Abul Kashem founded the weekly Sainik in 1948, which acted as a mouthpiece of the historic Language Movement.

Abul Kashem felt the need of introducing Bengali as medium of higher education in colleges and universities.

Abul Kashem was the forerunner in introducing textbooks in Bengali for higher education and contributed much in initiating the Bengali version of the question papers for higher education.

Abul Kashem received a number of national and social awards, including Independence Day Award in 1993, Ekushey Padak in 1987, Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1982, Islamic foundation Award in 1988, Pakistan Writers guild award in 1964 etc.

Abul Kashem was accorded a national reception in Dhaka in 1989 which was attended by eminent scholars and litterateurs of Bangladesh and India.

Abul Kashem died at the Suhrawardy Hospital in Dhaka on Monday 11 March 1991.