You are new in this forum compare to me. I have many times praise Nawab Salimullah for Establishment of Dhaka University whereas Tagore opposed it.
See Bengali like you praise Tagore wheareas I do not and I repeatedly demanded to banned his work from Muslim bd including the so called national song selected by mushrik minded muslim right after the seperation. See Tagore was Mushrik so if you read too much of his work would truned you semi mushrik.
By the way, will you prefer death with la ilaha illa Allah on your mouth or amar sonar bangla.
It is encouraging to note your praise towards Nawab Salimullah. About Tagore, I cannot just disrespect him because he belonged to the Hindu society. Like Sharatchandra Chatterjy, he was also against the evil customs, jatpat, jealousy etc. of the then Hindu society. We should appreciate that.
In one of his essays he wrote about building a primary school in Kushtia. The influential Hindus opposed it out of jealousy that 'choto lok' peasants' sons would get education. Tagore was in confusion, he wrote that the nearby muslim community leaders came and pleaded him to establish the school. He praised those muslims and established the school.
Tagore was certainly not against muslims. He even wrote that Muslims dislike Hindus only because it is a reciprocal action. It is because Hindus have been bullying Muslims all along. Moreover, do not forget that Tagore alone added about 7,000 new vocabularies to Bengali.
About against the establishment of Dhaka University, you have to note that in those days muslims in Bengal did not attend even the primary schools. So, how it was possible for our Muslim forefathers to attend University, be it in Calcutta or in Dhaka? So, it can be said that many people objected to Dhaka University only because it could have destroyed Cacutta University.
Sons of rich Hindu landlords in east Bengal would gradually admit themselves in Dhaka instead of a far away Calcutta. It took four days to reach there. This would have caused decrease in the number of students in Calcutta and would ruin the University there. I must say that their thinking, including that of Tagore, was irrational and they were not foresighted. But, you have to consider about that dark era to understand the minds of people.
About the national song of BD, I personally do not like the song solely because it is not possible for a common person to sing it. It was, in fact, a poem that praised Bengal, and was written long before Bangladesh was created. Then melody was added to it afterwards and was made the national song of BD.
But, now I will give you a very important news about the melody. To my dismay, I have found that the melody was stolen from another song, a film song. It is from the movie 'RAIKAMAL.' Uttam Kumar has acted in this Baishnab story film. The song is there. It was built sometime in 1950s. See the link below. I like very much all the Hindu Baishnab songs in it. I wonder, if Jamaatis will hide behind a Burqa while listening to the songs.
http://www.banglanatokmovie.com/Bangla_Movie/Raikamal.htm