Last Updated on 07/08/2024 by wccexam Desk
History of Dhaka University: Due to anti-government protests in Bangladesh, four-time Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had to resign. For the last one month, students in the country have been fighting against reservation in government jobs. Nahid Islam of Dhaka University and his colleagues are the main faces of this movement. This protest started from Dhaka University itself, although this is not the first time, this university has always been revolutionary in terms of movement. You will be surprised to know that the foundation of Dhaka University of Bangladesh was laid in India 103 years ago.
The foundation of Dhaka University was laid in India
Dhaka University is the largest and main university of Bangladesh, but its history is linked to India. The story of this university is from the time when Bangladesh and Bengal used to be one. Dhaka University was started in the year 1921 under the Dhaka University Act 1920 of the Indian Legislative Council. At that time this university was in Bengal of Hindustan, that is, it was an Indian university. To please the majority Muslim people of East Bengal, Lord Curzon had agreed to establish a university in Dhaka. Nawab Bahadur Sir Khwaja Salimullah donated 600 acres of land from his property for this university. This university was being run in India at that time, where most of the teachers were Hindus.
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After this, along with the independence of India, Dhaka University was also divided. The Bengal province of British India was divided into East Pakistan and West Bengal state of India and the Punjab province of British India was divided into Punjab province of West Pakistan and Punjab state of India. When Bengal was divided, the capital Dhaka became a part of Pakistan and with this Dhaka University also became a part of Pakistan. Now this university came to be known as the University of Pakistan. After the partition, Pakistani students and teachers started studying and teaching in this school but it did not last long.
The real place found in the partition of Pakistan
Within a few years of independence, talks of partition started in Pakistan as well. In March 1971, Pakistan President Yahya Khan held a long conversation with Mujib in Dhaka, while government forces were coming from West Pakistan. After this, the army attacked on March 25, in which many students were also killed. After this, Mujib of Dhaka was arrested and taken to West Pakistan. After this incident, East Pakistan was declared the independent state of Bangladesh. As soon as Dhaka separated from Pakistan, Dhaka University became Bangladeshi. Since then, Dhaka University is in Bangladesh and is considered the largest university there.
Dhaka University is known for its revolutionary movement
Dhaka University has not only produced brilliant students but many movements have also started from this university. The movement for intellectual freedom started from this university in 1926. The university campus has always been the center of revolutionary progressive movement, nationalist movement and movement against British rule. Apart from this, from the language movement of 1952 to the education movement of 1962, the anti-Ayub movement of 1967-69 and the Liberation War of 1971, the roles played by Dhaka University can be considered unique in the world.
The movement against Sheikh Hasina started from Dhaka University
Even after Bangladesh’s independence, the anti-Ershad movement of the 1990s was led by Dhaka University students. Dhaka University students once again took the lead in 2013 and demanded the death penalty for Abdul Kader Mullah, assistant general secretary of Bangladesh’s Jamaat-e-Islami party. Mullah was convicted of beheading a poet, raping an 11-year-old girl and shooting 344 people during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, earning him the nickname ‘Butcher of Mirpur’. And now the fight against reservation has also been led by Dhaka University student organisations, which resulted in PM Hasina Sheikh having to leave the country.
Currently Dhaka University has 13 faculties, 83 departments, 13 institutes, 20 residential halls, 3 hostels and more than 56 research centers. There are about 39,496 students enrolled in this university and about 1999 teachers teach them.
Source (PTI) (NDTV) (HINDUSTANTIMES)