Mujibur Rahman Khan (23 October 1910 – 5 October 1984) was a Bangladeshi journalist, litterateur and politician.

Education and career

Khan passed the Entrance examination from Anjuman High School in 1928 and Bachelor of Arts in 1934 from

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. He then enrolled in the Department of English at

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but left without completing his master's degree.

Career

Mujibur Rahman became a headmaster Harua High School in

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Journalism

Khan was associated with All Bengal Anti-Fascist Writers' Guild, Bangiya Mussalman Sahitya Samiti, East Pakistan Renaissance Society, Pakistan Arts Council and

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. He was the first president of East Pakistan Press Club which is today

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East Pakistan Renaissance Society

At a meeting held on 30 August 1942 at the office of the Azad, in

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, the

East Pakistan Renaissance Society The East Pakistan Renaissance Society was a political organisation formed to articulate and promote culturally and intellectually the idea for a separate Muslim state for Indian Muslims and specifically for the Muslims of Bengal. The organisati ...

was established to promote the idea of a separate Muslim state comprising the Muslim majority areas of India on the basis of the

Lahore Resolution The Lahore Resolution ( ur, , ''Qarardad-e-Lahore''; Bengali: লাহোর প্রস্তাব, ''Lahor Prostab''), also called Pakistan resolution, was written and prepared by Muhammad Zafarullah Khan and was presented by A. K. Fazlul ...

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and Mujibur Rahman Khan became its founders. In 1944, Mujibur Rahman Khan published a booklet, ''Eastern Pakistan: Its Population, Delimitation and Economics'' along with Dr M Sadeq, a professor of economics at Islamia College. This contained a description of the government, economy, population, geographic boundary, security of a future state of

East Pakistan East Pakistan was a Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which, in modern times, is split between India and Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India and Myanmar, wit ...

. The society held its first meeting in July 1944. He was also elected to the first Constituent Assembly of India in 1946.

Works

* ''Bilate Pratham Bharatbas''i (1939) * ''Pakistan'' (1942) * ''Eastern Pakistan: Its Population, Delimitation and Economics'' (1942) * ''Sahityer Simana'' (1974) * Sahitya O Sahityik (1971) * ''Mahanabi'' (1980) * ''Amader Itihas'' * ''Sahityer Buniyad''

Awards

* Sitara-i-Quaid-e-Azam *

Ekushey Padak Ekushey Padak ( bn, একুশে পদক; lit. "Twentyfirst Award") is the second highest civilian award in Bangladesh, introduced in memory of the martyrs of the Bengali Language Movement of 1952. The award is given to recognize contribut ...

(1980)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khan, Mujibur Rahman 1910 births 1984 deaths Bangladeshi Muslims 20th-century Bengalis Bangladeshi journalists Recipients of the Ekushey Padak 20th-century journalists People from Netrokona District