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Autobiography of Muhammad Dabirul Islam

 

Muhammad Dabirul Islam is one of the few brilliant young student leaders who have made significant contributions to the historical language movement, the Dhaka University staff movement, and the formation of the East Pakistan Muslim Chhatra League (now Bangladesh Chhatra League). Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was his close friend and classmate in the law department of Dhaka University.

 

Muhammad Dabirul Islam was born on 13 March 1922 in Bamunia village under Baliadangi upazila of Thakurgaon district. His father's name was Maulana Tamiz Uddin Ahmed and his mother was Dakhtar Khanam.

 

Md. Dabirul Islam passed Matriculation from Thakurgaon Boys School in 1936 and Intermediate from Rajshahi Government College in 1940.

 

Later in 1948 he passed BA and was admitted in Dhaka University in Law. He was expelled from Dhaka University for various movements and passed the LLB examination from prison in 1955 with distinction.

 

Nurul Huda, Quader Box, Mustafa Nurul Islam, M. Akter Mukul, Dabirul Islam of Dinajpur led the language movement in 1948. At the first council session of the BCL in 1949, Dabirul Islam was elected the first president of the central committee of the BCL and served till 1953. When the movement started with the demand to make Bengali the state language, the oppression of the government came down. As a precaution, on 8 January 1949, Chhatra Dharma Ghat was observed in educational institutions all over East Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Dabirul Islam and Oli Ahad addressed the students on the grounds of Dhaka University. Dabirul Islam, Nurul Huda, Quader Box and M. Akhter Mukul were imprisoned when the movement intensified.