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Munier Chowdhury

Died in 1971

Munier Chowdhury was born on 27 November 1925 in Manikganj, the son of a district magistrate. He taught at the University of Dhaka, in English and then in Bengali, from 1950 to 1971. Arrested in 1952 for protesting against the repression of the language movement, he remained in detention until 1954 and took his master's degree in Bengali in prison, graduating first. A graduate in linguistics from Harvard in 1958, he designed a Bengali keyboard for the typewriter. On 14 December 1971 he was abducted from his home by collaborators of the Pakistani army and never reappeared.

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