Abul Barkat

Here is a revised memorial biography for Abul Barkat, grounded solely in well‑verified sources and preserving only supported facts:

Abul Barkat (16 June 1927 – 21 February 1952) was a student and language‑rights activist who became a martyr during the Bengali Language Movement in what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). He was born in Babla village in the Salar area of Murshidabad district, then part of the Bengal Presidency under British India (en.wikipedia.org).

He completed his early education in Babla, matriculating from Talibpur High School in 1945, and earning his intermediate certificate from Krishnath College in 1947 (en.wikipedia.org). In 1948, following the Partition of India, he relocated to Dhaka and enrolled at the University of Dacca (Dhaka University), where he received a BA in Political Science in 1951. He was pursuing his MA in Political Science at the time of his death (en.wikipedia.org).

On 21 February 1952, despite an imposed curfew (Section 144), Abul Barkat joined a student-led protest near Dhaka Medical College demanding recognition of Bengali as a state language. He was shot during the police firing and succumbed to his injuries that evening, around 8 pm at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (en.wikipedia.org). He was buried the same night at Azimpur Graveyard in Dhaka (bangla.bdnews24.com).

Abul Barkat is remembered as one of the key martyrs of the Bengali Language Movement, a moment that stirred national consciousness and contributed to Bangladesh’s eventual independence (bdnews24.com). His mother, Hasina Begum, later inaugurated the central Shaheed Minar memorial in 1963 (library.squarepolka.com). In 2000, the Government of Bangladesh posthumously awarded him the prestigious Ekushey Padak (library.squarepolka.com). A museum and memorial archive honoring him have since been established on the University of Dhaka campus (library.squarepolka.com).

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