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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
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{{Infobox person
|name=Abul Hashim
|image=Abul hashim.JPG
|birth_date={{Birth date|1905|01|27|df=y}}
|birth_place=[[Purba Bardhaman district|Purba Bardhaman]], [[West Bengal]], [[British India]]
|death_date={{Death date and age|1974|10|05|1905|01|27|df=y}}
|death_place=
|title = General Secretary, Bengal Provincial Muslim League
|organization = [[All-India Muslim League|Muslim League]],<br/> Khelafat Rabbani Party
|movement=[[Indian Independence Movement]]; <br />[[Bengali Language Movement]]; <br /> Movement against [[Ayub Khan (Field Marshal)|Ayub Khan]].
}}
'''Abul Hashim''' (25 January 1905 – 5 October 1974) was a Bangladeshi politician and Islamic thinker in the [[Indian Subcontinent]].<ref name=pedia>{{cite book |last=Bhuiyan |first=Golam Kibria |year=2012 |chapter=Hashim, Abul |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Hashim,_Abul |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref>

==Early life==
Hashim was born in a lord family in the village of Kashiara in [[Purba Bardhaman district|Purba Bardhaman]] district of [[West Bengal]]. He graduated from [[Burdwan Raj College]] in 1928, which was then affiliated with the [[University of Calcutta]], and earned a law degree in 1931 from the same university. Then he started his law practice at the court of [[Burdwan]].
He was the father of Bangladeshi leftist politician and writer [[Badruddin Umar]].

==Political career==
He took part in the election to the [[Bengal Legislative Council]] in 1936, and participated in the [[All India Muslim League]] conference at [[Allahabad]] in 1938. He also participated in Muslim League's Lahore conference in 1940.<ref name=pedia/> Hashem, a clandestine leftist successfully infiltrated into the Indian Muslim League and, using his family connections, got elected as the general secretary of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League in 1943. In his memoirs, Hashim mentions that at the meeting where he was elected to the post, he was clad in a dhoti. He opposed the creation of Jinnah's vision of East Pakistan, the modern day Bangladesh.The success of the Muslim League soon came through in the 1946 election. He maintained a political proximity with [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]] and was active in Pakistan Movement.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/abul-hashem-had-a-point-the-state-of-permanent-insurgency-must-be-overcome/cid/620987|title=Abul Hashem had a point - The state of permanent insurgency must be overcome |location=Calcutta | date=22 June 2009 | first=Ashok | last=Mitra | newspaper=The Telegraph | access-date=4 October 2018}}</ref>

===United Bengal movement===
But, he participated in the [[United Bengal]] movement in 1947, and on 12 May 1947 he together with [[Sarat Bose]] met [[Mahatma Gandhi]] to discuss the United Bengal scheme and received his blessings. But the day after, on 13 May 1947, the president of the Indian National Congress, [[J. B. Kripalani]], dismissed any notions to "save the unity of Bengal". In reply to the plea, made by Ashrafuddin Chowdhury, a Muslim nationalist and peasant leader from [[Tippera]], Kripalini wrote: "All that the Congress seeks to do today is to rescue as many areas as possible from the threatened domination of the League and Pakistan. It wants to save as much territory for a Free Indian Union as is possible under the circumstances. It therefore insists upon the division of Bengal and [[Punjab (region)|Punjab]] into areas for [[India|Hindustan]] and [[Pakistan]] respectively."<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://sites.google.com/site/bdguiber/home/6-english/bangladesh/colonialism-politics|title=Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics: 1919-1947|last=Bose|first=Sugata|publisher=Cambridge University Press, First Indian Edition in association with Orient Longman|year=1987|location=[[Hyderabad]]|pages=230–231}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Kabir|first1=Nurul|title=Colonialism, politics of language and partition of Bengal PART XVI|url=https://sites.google.com/site/bdguiber/home/6-english/bangladesh/colonialism-politics|access-date=14 August 2016|work=The New Age|publisher=The New Age|date=1 September 2013}}</ref>

After the partition of India, Hashim became the parliamentary leader of the opposition in West Bengal Provincial Assembly.<ref name=pedia/> In 1950 Hashim decided to move to [[East Pakistan]] and settled in Dhaka.

==Later life and death==
In 1940, Hashim began to experience problems with his eyesight, and his condition worsened in 1950 when he became completely blind. Despite this problem, he continued his work in politics, and in 1960, he became the Director of the Islamic Academy.<ref name=pedia/>

==Books==
Abul Hashim wrote several books in English and Bengali. Some of his works are:
* {{cite book |date=1945 |title=Let us go to War |location=Dhaka }}
* {{cite book |date=1950 |title=The Creed of Islam |location=Dhaka |publisher=Umar Bros.}}
* {{cite book |date=1965 |title=As I see it |location=Dhaka |publisher=Islamic Academy}}
* {{cite book |date=1974 |title=In Retrospection |location=Dhaka |publisher=Subarna Publishers}}

==References==
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