Taj Hashmi

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Taj Hashmi
تاج ہاشمی - তাজ হাসমী
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Hashmi in 2025
Born1948 (age 76–77)
Assam, British India
Nationality
Citizenship Bangladeshi
Canadian
Alma mater Dhaka College
University of Dhaka
University of Western Australia
Occupation Academic
Notable workPakistan As A Peasant Utopia: The Communalization Of Class Politics In East Bengal, 1920-1947
Children2

Taj ul-Islam Hashmi, better known as Taj Hashmi, is a Bangladeshi academic and writer. He was a professor at prominent universities, and his work "Pakistan as a Peasant Utopia" is very popular among academics. [1]

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Early life

Hashmi was born in 1948 in Assam, India. [2]

Education

He did his bachelor's degree and masters at the University of Dhaka in Islamic History and Culture. He did his PhD at the University of Western Australia in Modern South Asian History. [2]

Career

Hashmi taught Islamic and Modern South Asian History and Cultural Anthropology at various universities in Bangladesh, Australia, Singapore, and Canada.

From 1972 to 1981, Hashmi taught at the University of Dhaka. He also taught at the University of Chittagong. [3] From 1987 to 1988, Hashmi taught at the Curtin University. From 1989 to 1998, he taught at the National University of Singapore. [2]

Hashmi taught at the University of British Columbia from 2003 to 2004. He has also worked for four years as a professor of Security Studies at the U.S. Department of Defense, College of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. [2]

Hashmi is a lecturer in security studies at Austin Peay State University. He is a member of the editorial board of Contemporary South Asia and also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of South Asian Studies. He has been a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland since 1997. He was a visiting fellow at the Centre for International Studies at University of Oxford and a fellow at the National Centre for South Asian Studies at Monash University in Australia. [2]

Hashmi joined the Dhaka Tribune as a columnist in September 2024. [3]

Personal life

Hashmi lives in Toronto, Canada, and he is married with two children. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Taj Hashmi". The Daily Star. 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Hashmi, Taj". SAGE Publications Inc. 2024-08-29. Retrieved 2024-10-14.
  3. 1 2 3 "Taj Hashmi joins Dhaka Tribune as weekly columnist". Dhaka Tribune . 19 September 2024. Retrieved 14 October 2024.
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