Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad
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Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad (1869–1953) or Abdul Karim the Literature Master, was a renowned Bangladeshi author, who was born in Chittagong.
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[edit] Life
Because of poverty, Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad could not continue his education. He became a simple employee of a court and school inspectors office.
[edit] Literary career
Abdul Karim was a collector of ancient Bengali Literature. He collected more than 2,000 Puthis to prevent them from being lost.
More than 1,000 of them were written by Bengali Muslims. No other person or organization had collected this number of Puthis before.
His literary works are included in the curriculum of school level, secondary, higher secondary, and graduation level Bengali Literature in Bangladesh.
[edit] Edited books
- Gorokho Bijoy
- Mriholubdho
- Gyan Sagor
[edit] References
- Golpo Songroho (Collected Stories), the national text book of B.A. (pass and subsidiary) course of Bangladesh, published by University of Dhaka in 1979 (reprint in 1986).
- Bangla Sahitya (Bengali Literature), the national text book of intermediate (college) level of Bangladesh published in 1996 by all educational boards.
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