Rashidul Hasan

SMA Rashidul Hasan (193214 December 1971) was a Bengali educationist. He was born in the district of Birbhum, British India (now in West Bengal, India). In 1949, he migrated to East Pakistan.

Early life and education Hasan was born in 1932 to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Barashija in Birbhum district, Bengal Presidency. He was the son of Maulvi Mohammad Abu Saeed. He studied at the Bhabta Azizia Madrasa in Murshidabad, and passed his Intermediate of Arts from the Islamic Intermediate College in Dhaka. After that, Hasan obtained his BA (Hons.) and MA in English from the University of Dhaka in 1957 and 1958, respectively. With the help of a friend of his he returned 12 days later unharmed. On the morning of 14 December, two days before independence, Hasan was taken together with his close friend Anwar Pasha from the same flat within the University of Dhaka campus by the Al Badar forces. The two families were then living together in a flat in the Isa Khan Road area. After 22 days of his disappearance, his decomposed body was found in the Mirpur killing ground and buried in the compound of the Dhaka University Central mosque.