Sardar Fazlul Karim

Sardar Fazlul Karim (; 1 May 1925 – 15 June 2014) was a Bangladeshi academic, philosopher and essayist.

Early life and family Sardar Fazlul Karim was born on 1 May 1925, to a lower middle class family in the village of Atipara located in the Backergunge District of the Bengal Presidency (present-day Wazirpur Upazila, Barisal District, Bangladesh). His father, Khabiruddin Sardar, was a farmer, and his mother, Safura Begum, was a housewife. He had one brother and three sisters, and they grew up in the village.

Education When Karim was a high school student, Saratchandra Chatterjee's novel Pather Dabi (Demand for a Pathway) inspired him to dream of a revolution. He matriculated from Barisal Zilla School in 1940.

Career In 1954, while in prison, he was elected to the East Bengal Legislative Assembly as a Jukto Front candidate. He was released in 1955 by the United Front government. Arrested again during martial law, he was released in 1962.