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This book contains the memoirs of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, one of Indo-Pakistan subcontinent's leading politicians, the Chief Minister of United Bengal before independence, and the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1956. they are the first draft of what would have been a much larger work had notdeath overtaken him in December 1963. In addition, the editor, Mohammad Talukdar, has added a brief account of Suhrawardy's life.The memoirs provide some valuable insights into Suhrawardy's politics and personality. He was born in 1892 and began his political career as an associate of the great liberal nationalist leader of Bengal, C.R. Das. After Das's death in 1925 and in the wake of the growing divide between the Hindu andMuslim communities, Suhrawardy was drawn to Muslim separatist politics. He was a prominent Muslim League leader and it was chiefly due to his dynamic leadership that the Muslim League won its spectacular victory in the elections of 1946. However, the Great Calcutta Killings in 1946 and subsequentcommunal riots in many parts of India wrought a radical change in his outlook as he began to realize the dangerous implications of communal politics.He eventually returned to secul

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Author

Hussain Shaheed Suharwardy, Mohammad H.R. Talukdar (Editor)

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Biography, Memoir, Political