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Sartaj was active in the student movement that campaigned for the creation of an independent state for Muslims

Deepa Sen, leading the procession by Dhaka University students after Asad was killed on January 25, 1969. This article considers student activism at Dhaka University in the 1960s as a case study for considering student politics at multiple scales: local, regional, and international. In addition to providing a historical narrative of Dhakas engagement in the Mass upsurge campaign that led to the end of the Ayub Kahn regime, it also considers the ways this movement was informed by a sense of stud...