Badruddin Umar

Badruddin Umar is a MarxistLeninist theoristactivisthistorian. His father, Abul Hashim, was prominent politician in Indian Subcontinent.

Umar was born in West Bengal. Although his father Abul Hashim, a clandestine communist, opposed the creation of East Pakistan, ironically Hashim decided to move to East Pakistan and settled in Dhaka in 1950. Umar got his MA in Philosophy from Dhaka University and an Honors degree in PPE from Oxford University. Umar began his academic career as a university teacher at Dhaka University on a temporary basis. In 1963, He joined Rajshahi University as the founderchair of Political Science department. Then he founded department of Sociology at the same university.

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