[🇵🇰] Jinnah And Urdu-Bengali Controversy: A Historical Fallacy

[Old School]

Above, I posted some evidence of their narratives that the language movement increasingly assumed a liberationist, emancipatory character, at least cutting the first turf for the national liberation movement of 1971. There are millions of pieces of evidence if you look. Now, please listen to this summary by Canada-based Bengali intellectual Dr. Taj Hashmi's narrative on this myth :

 

[ThunderCat]

Bangladesh got independence because we mistreated them.

Not because of Urdu/Bangla controversy lol.

You're welcome for all the infrastructure we built for you and everything else.

 

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You're welcome for all the infrastructure we built for you and everything else.

I'm a Pakistani and not a Bangladeshi. What are you talking about.

 

[ThunderCat]

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Indepence was declared by Ziaur Rahman ( on behalf of sheikh Mujibur Rahman) after military crackdown in the middle of the night!

I don't think it's related to Language! If India can have Hindi as lingua franca , Pakistan also could have Urdu as lingua franca!

Also Urdu was first Language of Muhajirs who were not more than 8 % that time!

True but Muhajirs adopted it from the Ghaznavids, whom in turn developed it in the Punjab.

 

[ThunderCat]

It is the Bengalis and our liberals who claim that the Urdu/Bengali controversy was also part of that 'mistreatment.' They overlook that Bengali was awarded as the co-state language with Urdu in 1956.

I wrote about such neo-liberals on the previous forum. Plenty of them are on PDF trolling away spreading urban myths.