War and Secession: Pakistan, India, and the Creation of BangladeshVistaar, 1990 - 338 pages |
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Page 9
... Bengali claim to greater recognition and participation in the national polity began soon after independence with demands that Bengali be accepted along with Urdu as the national language of Pakistan . Indeed , language and its cultural ...
... Bengali claim to greater recognition and participation in the national polity began soon after independence with demands that Bengali be accepted along with Urdu as the national language of Pakistan . Indeed , language and its cultural ...
Page 10
... Bengali need for cultural identity , but also expressed a fear that lack of fluency in a " foreign " tongue would inhibit the entry of Bengalis into the administrative services . Another conflict concerned the basis of representation in ...
... Bengali need for cultural identity , but also expressed a fear that lack of fluency in a " foreign " tongue would inhibit the entry of Bengalis into the administrative services . Another conflict concerned the basis of representation in ...
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... Bengali Muslims living in the east , who were seen by Bengalis as agents of the west , was also judged by the military authorities to be substantial . Violations of martial law were becoming an unaccept- able affront to the military's ...
... Bengali Muslims living in the east , who were seen by Bengalis as agents of the west , was also judged by the military authorities to be substantial . Violations of martial law were becoming an unaccept- able affront to the military's ...
Contents
Prologue and Overview | 1 |
Image and Legacy | 8 |
Image and Legacy | 35 |
Copyright | |
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