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Sardar Fazlul Karim
Sardar Fazlul Karim (Bengali: সরদার ফজলুল করিম; 1 May 1925 – 15 June 2014) was a Bangladeshi academic, philosopher and essayist.[1][2] Early life and familySardar Fazlul Karim was born on 1 May 1925, to a lower middle class family in the village of Atipara located in the Backergunge District of the Bengal Presidency (present-day Wazirpur Upazila, Barisal District, Bangladesh). His father, Khabiruddin Sardar,[1][3] was a farmer, and his mother, Safura Begum, was a housewife. He had one brother and three sisters, and they grew up in the village.[4] EducationWhen Karim was a high school student, Saratchandra Chatterjee's novel Pather Dabi (Demand for a Pathway) inspired him to dream of a revolution.[5] He matriculated from Barisal Zilla School in 1940.[3] He completed his Intermediate of Arts (IA) at Dhaka Intermediate College in 1942.[3] He then became a student of Dacca University, initially studying English but soon shifting to philosophy because Haridas Bhattacharya's class lectures had attracted him.[5] He earned an honors BA, and in 1946, an MA.[6] CareerIn 1954, while in prison, he was elected to the East Bengal Legislative Assembly as a Jukto Front candidate.[7] He was released in 1955 by the United Front government.[5] He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan in 1955.[8] Arrested again during martial law, he was released in 1962.[5] He left politics in 1963 and joined the translation section of the Bangla Academy.[5][6] From 1969 to 1971 he directed the academy's cultural section.[5] In 1972, after Bangladesh won its independence, he rejoined Dacca University as a professor of political science.[6] Karim wrote scholarly books on philosophy, among them his দর্শনকোষ (Encyclopedia of Philosophy). He has translated Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau and Engels. Published workBengali Translation:
RecognitionKarim received the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1976,[6] and the Independence Day Award in 2000.[9] References
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