Taj Hashmi

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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Taj Hashmi
تاج ہاشمی - তাজ হাসমী
Born	1948 (age 76–77) Assam, British India
Nationality	India (1948–1950) Pakistan (1950-1971) Bangladesh (from 1971)
Citizenship	Bangladeshi Canadian
Alma mater	Dhaka College University of Dhaka University of Western Australia
Occupation	Academic
Notable work	Pakistan As A Peasant Utopia: The Communalization Of Class Politics In East Bengal, 1920-1947
Children	2
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Hashmi was born in 1948 in Assam, India.^[2]

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]

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.^[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]

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

• Hashmi, Taj (2022). Fifty Years of Bangladesh, 1971-2021: Crisis of Culture, Development, Governance, and Identity. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-97158-8. ISBN 9783030971571.
• Hashmi, Taj (2000). Women and Islam in Bangladesh: Beyond Subjection and Tyranny. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9780333993873. ISBN 9780333749593.
• Hashmi, Taj (2021). Pakistan As A Peasant Utopia: The Communalization Of Class Politics In East Bengal, 1920-1947. Routledge. ISBN 9780367297619.
• Hashmi, Taj (1994). Islam, Muslims and the Modern State. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-1-349-14208-8.
• হাসমী, তাজ (1985). ঔপনিবেশিক বাংলা (in Bengali) (1st ed.). Calcutta: Papirus.

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