Syed Shamsul Haq was a Bangladeshi writer. He was awarded Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1966, Ekushey Padak in 1984 and Independence Day Award in 2000 by the Government of Bangladesh for his contri
Haque with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in 2016.
The University of Dhaka, also known as Dhaka University, is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Established in 1921, it is the oldest active university in Bangladesh.
Syed Shamsul Haque
…Akademi of India (2010) Golpo Songroho (Collected Stories), the national textbook of B.A. (pass and subsidiary) course of Bangladesh, published by University of Dhaka in 1979 (reprint in 1986). Bangla Sahitya (Bengali Literature), the national textbook of intermediate (college) level of Bangladesh published in 1996…
Curzon Hall, the first institute of the University of Dhaka in 1949
Nawab Bahadur Sir Khwaja Salimullah played a pioneering role in establishing the University of Dhaka and large part of 600 acres of land from his estate were acquired for this purpose.
After Nawab Salimullah's death, Syed Nawab Ali Chowdhury continued efforts to set up the university, mortgaging a part of his zamindari estate, donating 35,000 takas for the University of Dhaka and 16,000 takas for scholarships for its students.
DU Convocation of 1936, (from left) Sir Jadunath Sarkar (historian), Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (writer), Sir John Anderson (Chancellor and Governor of Bengal), Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy (chemist), Sir A F Rahman (Vice-Chancellor)