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Abul Kashem was born on 28 June, 1920 in Chittagong District, Bengal, British India (now Bangladesh), is a Bangladeshi activists, author. Discover Abul Kashem's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 71 years old?

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Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 28 June, 1920
Birthday 28 June
Birthplace Chittagong District, Bengal, British India (now Bangladesh)
Date of death 1991
Died Place Dhaka, Bangladesh
Nationality India

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1920

Mohammad Abul Kashem (known as Principal Abul Kashem, 28 June 1920 – 11 March 1991) is generally considered as a pioneer and the architect of the historic Language Movement of Bangladesh.

He was also a politician, author and an eminent educationist.

He founded the Islamic-oriented Bengali cultural organisation Tamaddun Majlish.

Kashem was born on 28 June 1920 at a village Cheebandy-Barama under Chandanaish Upazila of district of Chittagong.

1939

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

1941

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

1944

From Dhaka University, he obtained a Bachelor of Science (honors) in Physics in 1944 and a Master of Science degree in physics in 1945.

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

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

1946

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

As a lecturer, he was the first person who delivered lectures in the Bengali at Dhaka University.

1947

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

On 1 September 1947 he founded the Pakistan Tamaddun Majlish as a non-political cultural organisation to mobilise students, intellectuals and the people in general for the Bengali language.

On 15 September 1947 he published a booklet entitled, Pakistaner Rashtra Bhasha: Bangla Na Urdu? (Pakistan's state language: Bengali or Urdu?) demanding introduction of Bengali as one of the state language of whole Pakistan.

This booklet also strongly advocated for Bengali as the medium of education, court language and for its use in the offices in East Pakistan.

Also his untiring efforts let to the formation of the first Rashtrabhasa Sangram Parishad (State Language Committee of Action) on 1 October 1947 with Nurul Huq Bhuiyan as the convener and he himself as the treasurer.

On 6 December 1947, a meeting was held under the president-ship of Kashem in Dhaka University campus which protested the resolution of the education week held in Karachi suggesting Urdu as the state language and the lingua franca of Pakistan.

A protest procession was brought out from the meeting, which met Khawaja Nazimuddin, the provincial Chief Minister, and other ministers.

Khawaja Nazimuddin gave a written assurance to the Action Committee that he would do the needful to introduce Bengali as one of the state language of Pakistan.

1948

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

As the outcome of the strike, on the eve of the impending visit of Mohammad Ali Jinnah (the founder of Pakistan) to Dhaka, the then Provincial Government had no other alternative but to sign an agreement with the action committee on 15 March 1948 for introducing Bengali as one of the state language of Pakistan.

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

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

1952

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

1953

He held his lecturer position until 1953.

Kashem was actively associated with politics.

1954

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

While a member of the Legislative Assembly, he moved a resolution for introduction of Bengali as the medium of education at all levels.

1956

On 30 September 1956, he proposed Bengali as the state-language and it was approved unanimously and thus, Bengali received constitutional recognition as one of the State language of Pakistan.

1962

With his dream, he established the Bangla College at Mirpur, Dhaka in 1962 and served the college as Principal until 1981.

He 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.

[[File:Ekushe Padak.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Certificate of Ekushey Padak awarded to Language Soldier Abul Kashem in Bengali language. (English translation : 'Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh'

'Ekushey Padak'

'Letter of Honor'

1987

'The Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh has awarded the Ekushey Padak of 1987 to Mr. Mohammad Abul Kashem for his glorious contribution and achievement in the field of education.'

1988

'7 Falgun 1394', '20 February 1988' 'President')]] Kashem received a number of national and social awards, including Independence Day Award in 1993, Ekushey Padak in 1987, Bangla Academy Literary Award (for his book Biggan Somaj O Dhormo) in 1982, Islamic foundation Award in 1988, Pakistan Writers guild award in 1964 etc. He was accorded a national reception in Dhaka in 1989 which was attended by eminent scholars and litterateurs of Bangladesh and India. In 2007, Dhaka City Corporation named the former Darussalam Road of Mirpur-1 as Bhasha Sainik Principal Abul Kashem Road for his contribution to historic Language Movement.

1991

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

A prolific writer, Kashem authored nearly 100 books including textbooks on science for postgraduate student and on education, Islam, culture and politics.

These include 40 textbooks on physics and other science subjects for college and university levels.

Some of his well-known books are: