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{{infobox person<br />
|name=Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury<br />
|native_name=মোফাজ্জল হায়দার চৌধুরী<br />
|native_name_lang=bn<br />
|image=Mufazzal_Haider_Chaudhury.jpg<br />
|caption=Chaudhury speaking in an event (1960s)<br />
|birth_date={{birth date|1926|7|22|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place=[[Noakhali]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date={{death date and age|1971|12|14|1926|7|22|df=y}}<br />
|father=Bazlur Rahman Chaudhury<br />
|mother= Mahfuza Khatun<br />
|spouse=Dolly Chaudhury<br />
|alma_mater={{ubl|[[Dhaka College]]|[[University of Calcutta]]}}<br />
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'''Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury''' (22 July 1926 – 14 December 1971) was a prominent Bengali essayist, prized scholar of Bengali literature, educator and linguist of the Bengali language.<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Born in Khalishpur village, in [[Noakhali]] in [[East Bengal]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Rahman |first=Aminur |year=2012 |chapter=Chaudhuri, Mofazzal Haider |chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Chaudhuri,_Mofazzal_Haider |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last=Jamal |editor2-first=Ahmed A. |title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> to Bazlur Rahman Chaudhury and Mahfuza Khatun, Chaudhury lost his father when he was nine. Facing financial difficulties, his mother arranged for his education at the Ahmediya High English School, from where he passed his matriculation examination securing fourth place<ref name=DailyStarTanvir/> under the [[University of Calcutta]]. After passing his intermediate from the [[Dhaka College]], he went to study Bengali honors at the [[Scottish Church College]], in Kolkata. Later he moved to the [[Visva-Bharati University]], where he studied Bengali under the syllabus of the University of Calcutta, and passed his honors as a non-collegiate student in 1946.<ref name="NEW AGE"/> He made history by becoming the first Muslim to stand first class first in the BA (honors) examination from the Bengali department of Calcutta University, that too with record marks and a gold medal.<ref name=DailyStarTanvir>{{cite news|last=Chaudhury|first=Tanvir Haider|title=The father I never knew|<br />
url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2006/december/december14th/neverknew.htm|accessdate=7 November 2013|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=14 December 2022}}</ref> <br />
He was awarded 'Sahitya Bharati' by the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan.<ref name=DailyStarIntel>{{cite news|title=Profiles of martyred intellectuals|url=http://archive.thedailystar.net/suppliments/2006/december/december14th/intellectuals.htm|accessdate=7 November 2013|newspaper=The Daily Star|date=14 December 2022}}</ref> He topped his class in the master's examination in Shantiniketan.<ref name=DailyStarTanvir/><br />
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==Career==<br />
Chaudhury joined the [[Pakistan Radio]] in Dhaka in 1949, and was a lecturer at [[Jagannath University|Jagannath College]] before becoming a teacher at the Department of Bengali at the [[University of Dhaka]] having actually to sit for another master's exam because DU wouldn't accept his Bishwabharati degree and again coming first in his class,<ref name=DailyStarTanvir/> in 1953, in Bengali from the [[University of Dhaka]]. He joined DU in 1955.<ref name=DailyStarTanvir/> In 1957, he joined the [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] to study linguistics for two years. His research on the works and the philosophy of [[Rabindranath Tagore]] was felicitated and in 1970, he became an external examiner for Bengali at the University of Dhaka.<ref name="NEW AGE"/><br />
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==Death==<br />
Chaudhury was one of the leading Bengali intellectuals who were killed by collaborators of [[Pakistan Army]] on 14 December, two days before the end of the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref name="NEW AGE"/><br />
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On 14 December, which is observed as [[Martyred Intellectuals Day of Bangladesh|Martyred Intellectuals Day]], a group of [[Al-Badr (East Pakistan)|Al-Badr]] people took away the eminent intellectual from his house. His wife, Dolly Chaudhury, recognized one of the Al-Badr militants when the cover that hid the assassin's face was pulled by her husband. The person was [[Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin]].<ref name="NEW AGE">{{cite news |date=16 December 2007 |title=A tragedy of our time |url=http://www.newagebd.com/2007/dec/16/victoryday07/v08.html |newspaper=New Age |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704081724/http://www.newagebd.com/2007/dec/16/victoryday07/v08.html |archive-date=4 July 2022}}</ref><br />
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On 3 November 2013, [[Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin]], a Muslim leader based in London, and [[Ashrafuz Zaman Khan]], based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court found that they were involved in the abduction and murders of 18 people – nine Dhaka University teachers including Chaudhury, six journalists, and three physicians – in December 1971.<ref name=Independent1>{{cite news |last=Chowdhury |first=Syed Tashfin |date=3 November 2013 |title=UK Muslim leader Chowdhury Mueen Uddin sentenced to death in Bangladesh |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/uk-muslim-leader-chowdhury-mueen-uddin-sentenced-to-death-in-bangladesh-8919895.html |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |accessdate=7 November 2022}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[1971 Bangladesh atrocities]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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{{1971 Bangladesh genocide|state=expanded}}<br />
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