The Unfinished Memoirs of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Greek translation)

of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Preface by Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Translated into the Greek language by DEMETRIOS TH. VASSILIADES
“The unfinished memoirs of Bangladesh’s slain leader and founder Sheikh Mujibur Rohman have been the country’s political “gospel” during the 15-year premiership of his daughter, Sheikh Hasina.
Regardless of its fate after the dramatic change of government in Bangladesh and the flight of Sheikh Hasina, the book is a timeless text that should be read by all who wish to understand the tumultuous history of modern Bangladesh.” Dr Dimitrios Vassiliadis
“This extraordinary document is not only a portrait of a nation in the making; it is written by the man who changed the course of history and led his people to freedom.” Sheikh Hasina
When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s diaries came to light in 2004, it was an indisputably historic event. His daughter, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, had the notebooks—their pages by then brittle and discolored—carefully transcribed and later translated from Bengali into English.
Written during Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s sojourns in jail as a state prisoner between 1967 and 1969, they begin with his recollections of his days as a student activist in the run-up to the movement for Pakistan in the early 1940s. They cover the Bengali language movement, the first stirrings of the movement for Bangladesh independence and self-rule, and powerfully convey the great uncertainties as well as the great hopes that dominated the time. The last notebook ends with the events accompanying the struggle for democratic rights in 1955.
These are Sheikh Mujib’s own words—the language has only been changed for absolute clarity when required. What the narrative brings out with immediacy and passion is his intellectual and political journey from a youthful activist to the leader of a struggle for national liberation. Sheikh Mujib describes vividly how—despite being in prison—he was in the forefront of organizing the protests that followed the declaration of Urdu as the state language of Pakistan. On 21 February 1952 the police opened fire on a peaceful student procession, killing many. That brutal action unleashed the powerful movement that culminated in the birth of the new nation of Bangladesh in 1971.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born in 1920 and studied for a Bachelor of Arts degree at Calcutta University and a law degree at Dhaka University. One of the founders of the Awami League in 1949, he led his party to a dramatic victory in the election of 1970, a key event in the emergence of Bangladesh. He became the new nation’s prime minister in 1972 and held the position of the President of Bangladesh from January 1975. He was assassinated in Dhaka in August 1975 during a military coup d’état.
ISBN: 978-984-95636-8-6
Hardcover, 448 pages
First Edition, Annesha Prokashon, Dhaka: 2021
Price: € 25 + postage
Distributed by the Embassy of Bangladesh in Athens, Greece

Launch of the Greek translation of the “Unfinished Memoirs” of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
