  huseyn shaheed suhrawardy (english ipa: É¦usÃ¦Å ÊÉid sÉ¦uÉ¾ÉwÉÉ¾dÉªÉ; ; ; 8 september 1892 â 5 december 1963) was a bengali politician and statesman in the first half of the 20th-century. he served as the premier of bengal in british india and was the fifth prime minister of pakistan. born into a prominent bengali muslim family, suhrawardy was educated at oxford, and joined the swaraj party of chittaranjan das upon returning to india in 1921. he became the mayor of calcutta, the largest city in british india, during the 1930s, and later, as a member of the all-india muslim league, assumed the premiership of bengal in the mid-1940s. along with sarat chandra bose, suhrawardy mooted the united bengal proposal, in an attempt to prevent the partition of bengal. following the independence of pakistan in 1947, he became a leading populist statesman of east pakistan, leaving the muslim league to join the newly formed centre-left awami league in 1952. al
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