Sheikh Mujibur Rahman held public office at a time when the terms of that office were themselves being contested.
The record lists Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as President of the Provisional Government of Bangladesh and the 2nd Prime Minister and first President of Bangladesh.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born at Tungipara Upazila in 1920. His recorded nationality is Bangladesh. He was educated at Maulana Azad College and University of Calcutta.
Twentieth-century politics was conducted under the shadow of two world wars, decolonisation and the Cold War, and broadcast to electorates that could watch it happen.
He served as President of Bangladesh (1971–1972), Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1972–1975) and President of Bangladesh (1975–1975).
His political affiliation is recorded as BAKSAL and Bangladesh Awami League.
His name is attached above all to country as its president and prime minister from 1972 until his assassination in a coup d'état in 1975. Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.
That the career was made in Bangladesh is not incidental: the institutions available, the franchise, and the constraints of the moment all shaped what could be attempted.
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman died in 1975, aged 55. The assessment continues, as it does for anyone who held power - which is the ordinary fate of a political life.
Achievements
- President of Bangladesh (1971–1972)
- Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1972–1975)
- President of Bangladesh (1975–1975)
- Educated at Maulana Azad College and University of Calcutta
