Ghulam Murshid

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Ghulam Murshid (8 April 1940 – 22 August 2024) was a Bangladeshi author, scholar and journalist based in London.^[1] He won a number of awards, including the Bangla Academy Literary Award in 1982 for his contribution to research;^[2] the Prothom Alo Book Award in 2007; the IFIC literary prize 2018; and the Ekusey Padak for language and literature in 2021^[3]

Murshid was born on 8 April 1940 at Dhamua village of Barisal district.^[4] Besides being a prolific author, he was also a distinguished lexicographer. Murshid edited a three-volume Bengali dictionary, called 'Bibartonmulak Bangla Abhidhan', published in 2013–2014.^{[5][failed verification]} Two hundred years' of history of Bengali dictionaries, it is the first to be based on historical principles.^{[citation needed]} It provides the evolution of the form and meaning of every word and traces the first use thereof in written Bengali.^{[6][failed verification]}

Murshid died in London on 22 August 2024, at the age of 84.^[7]

Books in English

• Reluctant Debutante: Response of Bengali Women to Modernization, 1849–1905
• Lured by Hope: A Biography of Michael Madhusudan Dutt.
• The Heart of a Rebel Poet: Letters of Michael Madhusudan Dutt.
• Bengali Culture Over A Thousand Years

Books in Bengali

• Vaishnava Padavali Prabeshak [An Introduction to Medieval Vaishnava Songs]
• Vidyasagar [Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar: 150th Anniversary Commemoration Volume].
• Bangladesher Swadhinata Sangramer Samskritik Patabhumi [The Cultural Background of the War of Liberation in Bangladesh]
• Rabindraviswe Purba-Banga Purba-Bange Rabindracharcha (Based on the Vidyadagar Endowment Lectures given at Calcutta University)
• Samaj Samskar Andolan O Bangla Natak, 1865-76
• Bangla Mudran O Prakashanar Adi-Parba
• Samkocher Bivhabalata: Adhunikatar Abhighate Banga-Ramanir Pratikriya
• Bengali English Bengali Dictionary
• Kalantare Bangla Gadya
• Jakhan Palatak
• Rasasundari theke Rokeya: Nariprogatir Eksho Bachhar
• Ashar Chhalaner Bhuli
• Ujan Srote Bangladesh
• Hazar Bachhorer Bangali Samskriti
• Nari Dharmo Ityadi
• Madhur Khonje
• Kalapanir Hatchhani: Bilete Bangalir Itihas
• Atharo Shataker Bangla Gadya: Itiahs O Sankalan
• Chhoto-barho Sobar Michael
• Muktijuddha O tarpor: Ekti Nirdaliya Itihas
• Bangla Academy Bibartanmulak Abhidhan, 3 Vols, Editor
• Renaissance Banglar Renaissance
• Alokita Mukhocchabi
• Bidrohi Ranaklanta: Nazrul Jibani
• Rabindranather Nari-bhabna
• Bangla Ganer Itihas

website : www.ghulammurshid.in