Discussants at a programme in Dhaka on Monday said that an embodiment of liberalism, national professor Abdur Razzaq made remarkable contribution to building intellectual self-reliance.
He was able to interpret the socio-economic situation of his time by giving full value to it. Despite criticising colonial modernity and colonial westernisation in the Indian subcontinent, he did not hesitate to embrace the positivity of colonisation, they said at the discussion organised by the Bangla Academy at its Poet Shamsur Rahman Seminar Room on Monday.
Bangladesh Open University pro-vice-chancellor Professor Sayeed Ferdous, University Press Limited editor Firoz Ahmed, and Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha managing director and editor-in-chief Mahbub Morshed participated in the discussion.
Bangla Academy secretary Md Nayeb Ali delivered welcome address at the seminar, which was presided over by Bangla Academy director general Professor Mohammad Azam, said a press release.
Mentioning that even though he is not the author of many books, he has instilled thirst for knowledge and thoughtfulness among different generations, they also pointed out that he had presented insightful observations on the development of the Bengali Muslim middle class in the colonial period in his research and oral speeches and discussions.
鈥楬e has presented his valuable observations on the unstoppable role of bureaucracy in the politics of this region in his extraordinary study on Indian political parties,鈥� they mentioned, adding that through which it could easily explain the problems that were still affecting bureaucracy in our politics.
The national professor took a stand against the centralised empowerment of political parties, the practice of succession and intolerant identification for the liberation of the masses and saw the power of society and the power of the people as greater than the structural dry power of the state, the speakers noted.
