SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN - The Unfinished Memoirs / OXFORD PAKISTAN PAPERBACKS / Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780190706111 / 978-0190706111 

Pages 384

Printed in Pakistan 2014

These memoirs are based on four notebooks by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder of Bangladesh and the centre of the cause célèbre of the 1970s, written while he was a state prisoner in 1967. The book records Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's opinions about political developments in East Bengal/East Pakistan. It contains considerable material about the turbulent political conditions in which the Awami League and the United Front were formed, routing the Muslim League in the elections to the East Bengal Assembly in 1954. The author has made observations about several prominent leaders of the time, including Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Liaquat Ali Khan, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, A.K. Fazlul Haq, Abul Hashim, Maulana Bhashani, Khawaja Nazimuddin, Ghulam Muhammad, Mohammad Ali Bogra, Chaudhury Muhammad Ali, and Nurul Amin. These candidly written memoirs help explain the genesis of Bengali Muslim nationalism.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920–1975), Bengali nationalst politician and the punder of Bangladesh, came to prominence when he became General Secretary of the Est Pakistan Awami League in 1953, and held the post until he became party President in 1966. He led the Awami League to a dramatic victory in the Pakistan general elections of 1970, which proved to be a key event in the emergence of Bangladesh. liollowing the independence of Bangladesh, he became Prime Minister of Bangladesh. He wa assassinated in Dhaka in August 1975 by a group of military personnel.