The University Press Limited, commonly abbreviated as UPL, is an academic publishing house based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. UPL was established in 1975 as a successor to Oxford University Press' Dhaka branch where Mohiuddin Ahmed was chief executive. Its success in the publishing industry led to winning the National Book Centre Award 16 times since 1981. UPL is also the first publisher in Bangladesh to export books. As of 2018, UPL has published around 1,500 books. Mohiuddin Ahmed was initially posted at the Karachi office of Oxford University Press. After the Bangladesh liberation war in 1971, he returned to Dhaka, where he became a roving editor of OUP, coordinating the editorial activities in the branches of Dhaka, Delhi, Karachi and the East Asian branch in Malaysia. In 1975, when the Dhaka office of OUP was closed down, Ahmed decided to start UPL as a successor of OUP, as he was the chief executive in the branch. Due to a lack of advanced command in Bengali literature, he focused on English language academic and research books. UPL signed a contract with OUP and Orient Longman to adapt school text books, initially starting with six books of OUP. As the successor of OUP, UPL also retained the local employees of the former. More information...
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