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{{Short description|Indian politician}}
{{EngvarB|date=March 2017}}
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{{infobox person
|name=Badruddin Umar
|native_name=বদরুদ্দীন উমর
|image=
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|birth_date={{birth date and age|df=yes|1931|12|20}}
|birth_place=[[Bardhaman]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]
|nationality=[[Bangladeshis|Bangladeshi]]
|death_date=
|alma_mater=[[University of Dhaka]]<br />[[University of Oxford]]
|occupation= Marxist theorist, political activist, historian, writer, intellectual
|party=[[Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar)]]
|parents=[[Abul Hashim]] (father)
}}
'''Badruddin Umar''' ({{lang-bn|বদরুদ্দীন উমর}}; born 20 December 1931) is a Bangladeshi [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] theorist, political activist, historian, writer, intellectual and leader of the [[Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) (Umar)]].{{citation needed|date=June 2017}} His father, [[Abul Hashim]],<ref>{{cite journal|last=Razzaque |first=Rana |date=June 2006 |title=Abul Hashim As A Political Thinker |url=http://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/journals/vol%2052/ABUL%20HASHIM%20AS%20A%20POLITICAL%20THINKER.html |journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh |volume=51 |issue=1 |location=Dhaka |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718034508/http://www.asiaticsociety.org.bd/journals/vol%2052/ABUL%20HASHIM%20AS%20A%20POLITICAL%20THINKER.html |archive-date=18 July 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> was a prominent politician in the [[Indian subcontinent]].

==Early life, education, and career==
Umar was born in [[Bardhaman]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]. Although his father Abul Hashim, a clandestine Communist, opposed the creation of [[East Pakistan]], Hashim decided to move to East Pakistan and settled in [[Dhaka]] in 1950.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mitra |first=Ashok |date=22 June 2009 |title=Abul Hashem Had a Point |url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090622/jsp/opinion/story_11137241.jsp |work=The Telegraph |location=Calcutta |type=Opinion}}</ref> Umar received his MA in philosophy from [[University of Dhaka]] and his BA Honors degree in [[Philosophy, Politics and Economics]] (PPE) from [[University of Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.shrabonprokashani.com/events.php |title=Shrabon Prokashani, author |access-date=19 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122121229/http://www.shrabonprokashani.com/events.php |archive-date=22 January 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Umar began his academic career as a teacher at University of Dhaka on a temporary basis. In 1963, he joined [[Rajshahi University]] as the founder-chair of the political science department. He also founded the department of sociology at the same university, but he resigned from his university positions during the hostile times of the then East Pakistan governor [[Abdul Monem Khan]] to become increasingly more active and engaged as a full-time [[Left-wing politics|leftist political activist]] and [[Intellectual|public intellectual]] to fight for the cause of oppressed peasants and workers in Bangladesh.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.newagebd.com/2006/dec/20/oped.html |title=Tribute to Badruddin Umar on his seventy-fifth birthday |work=New Age |access-date=19 October 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070730212853/http://www.newagebd.com/2006/dec/20/oped.html |archive-date=30 July 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Political activism==
As a follower of Marxist–Leninist principles, Umar began writing [[Anti-imperialism|anti-colonial]] articles from the 1970s. In the 1960s he wrote three groundbreaking books—''Sampradayikata'' (Communalism, 1966),<ref>[http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/taj_hashmi/communalism_bengal250506.htm Communalism in Undivided Bengal: shrouding Class Conflict with Religion]</ref> ''Sanskritir Sankat'' (The Crisis of Culture, 1967), and ''Sanskritik Sampradayikata'' (Cultural Communalism, 1969)—that theorise the dialectics of the political culture of 'communalism' and the question of [[Bengali nationalism]],<ref>[http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/ComparativePolitics/SouthAsia/?view=usa&ci=9780195979084 The Emergence of Bangladesh]</ref> thus making significant intellectual contributions to the growth of Bengali nationalism itself.
In 1969, Umar joined the [[East Pakistan Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)|East Pakistan Communist Party]], and from February 1970 to March 1971, Umar edited the mouthpiece of the East Pakistan Communist Party—''Saptahik Ganashakti''—which published essays and articles about the problems and prospects of the [[Socialism in Pakistan|communist movement in Pakistan]].
He was president of both Bangladesh Krishak Federation (Bangladesh Peasant Federation) and Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir<ref>{{cite book |last=Morshed |first=Abul Kalam Manjoor |year=2012 |chapter=Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bangladesh_Lekhak_Shibir |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>—the country's oldest organisation of progressive writers, intellectuals, and cultural activists. Currently he is President of the Jatiya Mukti Council<ref>[http://www.newagebd.com/2008/jan/12/nat.html Jatiya Mukti Council calls for lifting of emergency]{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> (National Liberation Council).

==Books==
Umar has written nearly a hundred books and countless articles. The majority of his books discuss the problems and possibilities of the democratic and socialist [[Transformation of culture|transformation]] of class society. He lucidly and thoroughly exposes the [[lumpenbourgeoisie]]'s political culture in [[Bangladesh]].
In his books he discusses a wide range of issues including the [[political economy]] and culture of capitalism, world socialist movements, [[communist movements]] in Bangladesh, the phenomena of [[militarism]] and [[military dictatorships]] in the [[Third World]], criminalisation of politics, business, and so on. His book titled ''Poverty Trade'' engages with the ideas of Dr. [[Muhammad Yunus]] and provides a critique of his concept and practice of micro-credit.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.shrabonprokashani.com/events.php |title=Shrabon Prokashani |access-date=19 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100122121229/http://www.shrabonprokashani.com/events.php |archive-date=22 January 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[http://microcredit-book.blogspot.com/ Micro-Credit : myth manufactured]</ref> Umar also researched on [[Bengali Language Movement]] and published a book on this topic.

==Bibliography==
* Umar, Badruddin ''Amara Jibana: 1931–1950'' (Hardcover, Sahityika, {{ISBN|984-8391-35-5}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''Banaladese Ganatantrika Svairatantra '' (Maola Bradarsa, {{ISBN|984-410-028-3}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''Banaladese Samsadiya Ganatantra '' (Sahityika, {{ISBN|984-8391-11-8}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''Banaladesera artha-Rajanaitika Paristhiti '' (Jatiya Grantha Prakasana, {{ISBN|984-560-007-7}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''Dvitiya Aoyami Liga Sarakarera amale Banaladesa '' (Jatiya Anubhaba Prakasana, {{ISBN|978-984-8237-13-7}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''Ganaadalata, Asamapta Mukhti Samgramera Jera '' (Mira Prakasana, {{ISBN|984-775-088-2}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''Nirbacita Rajanaitika Prabandha '' (Subarna, {{ISBN|984-459-014-0}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''Sakhinara Candrakala '' (Ekuse Bamla Prakasana, {{ISBN|984-8670-97-1}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''Siksha O siksha andolana'' (Srabana, {{ISBN|984-8130-12-8}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''The Emergence of Bangladesh: Class and Political Struggles in East Pakistan, 1947–1958'' (Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-579571-7}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''The Emergence of Bangladesh Vol. 2: The Rise of Bengali Nationalism, 1958–1971'' (Oxford University Press, {{ISBN|0-19-597908-7}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''Indian National Movement: R. R. M. Roy Memorial Lecture, 1984'' (University Press, Limited, {{ISBN|984-05-1208-0}})
* Umar, Badruddin ''Language Movement in East Bengal'' (Jatiya Grontha Prakashan, {{ISBN|984-560-094-8}})
* Umar, Badruddin "samskritir sankata" 1st published in 1967 by Srabon Prokashoni,({{ISBN|984-813-047-0}})

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Politics/ComparativePolitics/SouthAsia/?view=usa&ci=9780195979084 The Emergence of Bangladesh]
*[http://www.allthelook.com/articles/article-6.html A People’s History of The Language Movement]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110610081316/http://www.weeklyholiday.net/2009/120609/mis.html New platform to fight against fascism]
*[http://b-umar.blogspot.com/ সংবাদপত্রে প্রকাশিত বদরুদ্দীন উমরের কয়েকটি লেখা]
*[https://www.thedailystar.net/opinion/news/badruddin-umar-our-leading-marxist-revolutionary-2013673 Azfar Hussain's essay on Badruddin Umar] in ''[[The Daily Star (Bangladesh)|The Daily Star]]''
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGiAiLNPTFw Azfar Hussain pays tribute] to Badruddin Umar on his 89th birthday

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