Mujibul Huq
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Mujibul Huq was a Bangladesh civil servant and recipient of the Independence Day Award of Bangladesh.
Huq was born on 31 December 1930 to a Bengali family of Muslim Sheikhs from the village of Gabha, which lies on the border of Banaripara and Jhalokati Sadar.[1] The Sheikhs of Gabha were descendants of Sheikh Ibrahim, a convert who belonged to the Hindu Dewan-Majumdar family of Barukathi and was awarded land in Gabha by the Mughals.[2]
Huq studied in Dhaka University and was involved in the Language Movement of 1952. He taught in University of Dhaka for a while.[3]