Taj Hashmi

{{Short description|Bangladeshi academic and writer}}{{Infobox person

| name = Taj Hashmi

| image =

| caption = Hashmi in 2025

| native_name = تاج ہاشمی - তাজ হাসমী

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1948}}

| birth_place = Assam, British India

| nationality = {{plainlist|

India (1948–1950)
Pakistan (1950-1971)
Bangladesh (from 1971)

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| citizenship = Bangladeshi
Canadian

| alma_mater = Dhaka College
University of Dhaka
University of Western Australia

| occupation = Academic

| notable_works = Pakistan As A Peasant Utopia: The Communalization Of Class Politics In East Bengal, 1920-1947

| children = 2

}}

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.{{Cite web |date=2015-02-15 |title=Taj Hashmi |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/author/taj-hashmi |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=The Daily Star |language=en}}

Early life

Hashmi was born in 1948 in Assam, India.{{Cite web |date=2024-08-29 |title=Hashmi, Taj |url=https://us.sagepub.com/hi/nam/author/taj-hashmi |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=SAGE Publications Inc |language=en}}

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.

Career

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

From 1972 to 1981, Hashmi taught at the University of Dhaka. He also taught at the University of Chittagong.{{Cite news |date=19 September 2024 |title=Taj Hashmi joins Dhaka Tribune as weekly columnist |url=https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/people/358997/taj-hashmi-joins-dhaka-tribune-as-weekly-columnist |access-date=14 October 2024 |work=Dhaka Tribune}} From 1987 to 1988, Hashmi taught at the Curtin University. From 1989 to 1998, he taught at the National University of Singapore.

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.

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.

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

Personal life

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

Bibliography

{{Cite book |last=Hashmi |first=Taj |title=Fifty Years of Bangladesh, 1971-2021: Crisis of Culture, Development, Governance, and Identity |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2022 |isbn=9783030971571 |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-97158-8}}
{{Cite book |last=Hashmi |first=Taj |title=Women and Islam in Bangladesh: Beyond Subjection and Tyranny |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2000 |isbn=9780333749593 |doi=10.1057/9780333993873}}
{{Cite book |last=Hashmi |first=Taj |title=Pakistan As A Peasant Utopia: The Communalization Of Class Politics In East Bengal, 1920-1947 |publisher=Routledge |year=2021 |isbn=9780367297619}}
{{Cite book |last=Hashmi |first=Taj |title=Islam, Muslims and the Modern State |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=1994 |doi=10.1007/978-1-349-14208-8}}
{{Cite book |last=হাসমী |first=তাজ |title=ঔপনিবেশিক বাংলা |publisher=Papirus |year=1985 |edition=1st |location=Calcutta |language=Bengali}}