Sirajul Islam

Infobox Writer
name = Sirajul Islam

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birthdate = 1941
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occupation = Academician and Editor
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Sirajul Islam is the chairman of the Board of Editors of "Banglapedia", the national encyclopedia of Bangladesh, and the editor of the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

Career

A professor of history at the University of Dhaka, the oldest and largest university in Bangladesh, Islam gave up his day job five years before the formal date of retirement, to make time for Banglapedia, in 2000. cite news | last = Khan | first = Mubin S | title = Professor Sirajul Islam: Making history | work = New Age New Year Special 2006 | language = English | publisher = The New Age | date = 2006-01-01 | url = http://www.newagebd.com/2006/jan/01/newyear06/heroes02.html | accessdate = 2007-06-07]

A corresponding fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Islam was a Senior Commonwealth Staff Fellow at the University of London (1978-79), a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Urbana Champaigne (1990-91), and a British Academy Visiting Professor (2004).cite web | last = | first = | title = Sirajul Islam (Dhaka University) | work = International Directory of South Asia Scholars (IDSAS) | publisher = Columbia University | date = 2004-04-21 | url = http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/data/indiv/area/idsas/ISLAM,Sirajul.htm | format = HTML | accessdate = 2007-07-23]

Work

In 2002, 10 volumes of "Banglapedia", published by Asiatic Society, came out in his editorship. In 1991, 3 volumes of the "History of Bangladesh" (political, economic and socio-cultural), published by Asiatic Society, came out in his editorship. For the Society, he is working on the "Children’s Banglapedia" and the "Cultural Survey of Bangladesh". He also is in charge of the "National Online Biography" project of the Society and the Banglapedia Trust.

While at his 34 year long stint at the University, he wrote major seminal works like "Permanent Settlement in Bengal" (1978), "The Bengal Land Tenure" (1990) and the "Rural History of Bangladesh" (1990). He also edited the 4 volume "Bangladesh District Record Survey".

References

External links

* [http://www.boi-mela.com/Banglapedia/Contributor.asp?Identifier=00635 Sirajul Islam's entries in Banglapedia] Boi-Mela. Retrieved: 2007-07-23
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/data/indiv/area/idsas/ISLAM,Sirajul.htm Publications of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh] Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. Retrieved: 2007-07-24