Talukder Moniruzzaman (1 July 1938 – 29 December 2019) was a Bangladeshi political scientist. He was inducted as a

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by the

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in 2006.

Biography

Moniruzzaman was born on 1 July 1938 at Tarakandi in

Sirajganj Sirajganj ( bn, সিরাজগঞ্জ) is a city in north-western Bangladesh on the right bank of the Jamuna River. It is the administrative headquarters of Sirajganj District, and with a population of 167,200 is the fourteenth most popul ...

. He was admitted to Dhaka University's political science department in 1956. He completed his graduate and postgraduate studies from there. After obtaining a postgraduate degree from Dhaka University, Moniruzzaman went to

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in 1963 and was admitted to Queen's University. He returned to his country in 1966 and joined Rajshahi University. He taught there until 1974. Moniruzzaman joined Dhaka University in 1974. He retired from there in 2006. He was inducted as a

by the

in that year. He was also involved in writing books, writing a total of nine books. Moniruzzaman was married to Razia Aktar Banu. They had two sons and one daughter. Moniruzzaman died on 29 December 2019 in Apollo Hospital, Dhaka at the age of 81.

References

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