1) Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah was a noted educationist, philologist and linguist from Bangladesh. 2) He made significant contributions to research on the Bengali language and explored its origins. 3) He had an illustrious career as a teacher and held several prestigious positions including the head of the Bengali Department at the University of Dhaka.

1. Welcome to
my presentation.
Presentation topic is biography and
analysis of leadership of Dr.
Muhammad Shahidullah

2. Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah
Early life
He was born in the village Peyara, 24
Pargana, West Bengal (now in India).
His father Mafizuddin Ahmed was a
warden of a shrine . .

3. Education
Muhammad Shahidullah passed his entrance examination in
1904 from Howrah Zila School. In 1906 he passed the FA
exam from residency college ,Calcutta. He received the
Bachelor of arts degree with Honors in Sanskrit in 1910 from
City College, Kolkata and Master of Arts in 1912 in
Comparative Philology from the University of Calcutta. He
also received a PhD from Sorbonne university.
Teaching career
started in JessoreSchool where he taught
between 1908 and 1909. He also worked as the
headmaster of Sitakunda High School, Chittagong
between 1914 and 1915. Shahidullah joined the
University of Dhaka as a lecturer of Sanskrit and
Bengali languages in 1921 .

4. Teaching career
• After completing his • He became principal of Bogra
Govt. Azizul Haque College
doctorate, he returned after retirement. He then
home and started teaching. rejoined the Bengali
When the Sanskrit and Department of the University
of Dhaka as a supernumerary
Bengali Department was teacher and taught there for
split into two separate six years as departmental head
departments, he became and dean of the Faculty of Arts
and International Relation
head of the Bengali Department .He also worked
Department in 1937 and as head of the Bengali and
Sanskrit Department of the
retired from this position in University of Rajshahi from
1944. 1955-58.

5. Reaserch and great achievement
After 1915 he returned to research and worked as
Sharatchandra Lahiri Research Fellow (1919–21) under the
supervision of Prof. Dinesh Chandra Sen at the University of
calcutta. His years at the University of Dhaka constituted
the most important period of his life. During his teaching
and research career there, he explored the origins of the
Bengali language. In 1925, he was able to show that
Bengali originated from Gaudi or Magadhan Prakrit. To
pursue his doctoral studies, Muhammad Shahidullah went
to France and Germany in 1926. He learnt Vedic Sanskrit,
Buddhist Sanskrit, Comparative Philology, and Tibetan and
ancient Persian language at University of Paris and ancient
Khotni, ancient Vedic Sanskrit and Prakrt at freiburg
University in Germany. He received his doctorate from the
Sorbonne in Paris in 1928 for his research on the distiches
of the Charyapada, the earliest extant specimens of
Bengali language.

6. Reaserch and great achievement
Dr. Shahidullah was the first Indian Muslim to receive the
doctorate degree. He also received a diploma for his fundamental
research in phonetics from the University of Paris the same year. A
dormitory in University of Dhaka is named after him .
Important works
Muhammad Shahidullah explored deep into the history of old and
middle Age Bengali literature. He wrote many books on these
subjects, and his research answered many of the interesting
questions about specific properties of Bengali language and
literature.

7. language related writings
Bhasa O Sahitya ,
Bangala Byakaran , Bangla shahityar kotha,Bangla
adab ki tarikh, Bangla Sahityer Itihas , Bangala
Bhasar Itibrtta .He also wrote about children. He
translated and edited a number of books. He took active
interest in Bengali folk literature.

8. His Family and dreams
Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah has seven sons and two daughters.
His dream was to build a knowledge –based society free from
hunger, poverty, corruption, and injustice.He tried his level best
to materialize his dream through writtings on different sides
specially on historic and scientific study of language.

9. His collaboration to establish Bangla Academy
The importance of establishing Bangla Academy to research
on Bengali language,culture,history was first emphasized by
the linguist Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah.In 1955,the
Government,the United Front,formed a committee including
Shahidullah to expedite the process .He worked friendly with
his other members(Hossain,Shadani,Barkatullah).On
December 3,1955,the prime minister, Abu Hossain
inaugurated the Bangla academy.
Death:He breathed his last on the 13th of July in 1969.

10. Leadership Analysis
A)Sources of power :There are • 3.Referent power:gaining
five bases of power compliance based on
• 1.Legitimate power charisma .
• 2.Expert power • Dr.Muhammad Shahidullah
• 3.Referent power is the combination of expert
• 4.Reward power power and referent power
• 5.Coercive power. as he is versed in the
• 2.Expert power:means the ability methods of education,the
to research on any particular historic and scientific study
subject and gaining compliance
to dispense valued information.
of language.And without
strong charisma not
possible to obtain such
great achievement.

11. B)Trait Theory
• Trait theory deals with the search • . He learnt Vedic
for the universal traits or features
possessed by all leaders.Five Sanskrit, Buddhist
traits are in trait theory i.e. Sanskrit, Comparative
• Intelligence
• Scholarship
Philology, and Tibetan and
• Dependability ancient Persian language at
• Social participation University of Paris and
• Socio-economic status. ancient Khotni, ancient
• Dr.Muhammad Shahidullah a’s Vedic Sanskrit and Prakrt at
life is constituted on trait theory
.He was an freiburg University in
educationist, philologist and Germany. We can see that
linguist so it goes without saying
that he was an intelligent man. he had a good scholarship
over different languages.

12. B)Trait Theory
.He passed his professional life through teaching in various
educational institutions. Sometimes he was lecturer
,additional teacher, departmental head, dean of faculty. And
as he carried out his responsibility sincerely, he was able to
ascend to the top position. He gained his PhD from Sorbonne
university.He researched on Bengali language. As he chose
the teaching as his profession, he got socio-economic status.

13. C)Managerial Grid
• There are five managerial grid : • Dr.Muhammad Shahidullah
• 1)impoverished management always thought how to find out
• 2)middle of the road the history of Bengali
management language, research on Bengali
language, culture and how to
• 3)team management dispense it to the folk. His dream
• 4)country club management was to build a knowledge-based
• 5)authority –compliance. society free from
hunger, poverty, corruption, and
injustice. This is really very high
concern for people. To materialize
• 3)Team management: very high his dream he went to different
concern for people and high countries to study and know
concern for production. about their language ,culture
etc.He researched a lot about
language. He wrote many
effective language and literary
related writings. This is very high
concern for production.

14. D)Behavioral styles theory
• There are 3 leadership • Dr. Shahidullah
style in behavioral theory: maintained democratic
• 1)Democratic style style as he felt the need
• 2)Authoritarian style and of help of others
whenever a committee
• 3)Laissez-faire style. was formed to expedite
the process of
• 1)Democratic style: the establishing Bangla
leader feels the need of Academy.
help ,decision of others.

15. E)The Ohio Model
• Initiating structure: • Dr.Muhammad
leader’s efforts to get Shahidullah devoted
things organized and his attention to get the
done. all requirements of
• Consideration: the research on Bengali
degree of language organized by
trust, friendship etc. his own efforts and his
personal concerns were
strictly as primary as
initiating structure. So
his leadership style was