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

[Vikings]

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Sure Bangla could have been used in East Pakistan.

But seriously to declare independence just because of language. lol.

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!

 

[Old School]

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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!

Please read how Bengalis see the language movement. it doesn’t matter how you see it. It matters how mainstream Bengalis see it now :

Language movement and emergence of Bangladesh

Language Movement began in 1948 and reached its climax in the killing of 21 February 1952 leading to establishment of Bangladesh in 1971. Ekushey February or Language Movement Day or...

slguardian.org

Contribution of Language Movement to Independence of Bangladesh (daily-sun.com)
Language Movement precursor to the Liberation War - The Business Post (businesspostbd.com)
Language Movement (1952).pdf (daffodilvarsity.edu.bd)
The Language Movement and independence - Bangladesh Post
The language movement that led to freedom (getbengal.com)
The Great Language Movement Of Bangladesh: Some Reflections| Countercurrents
Language and freedom (newagebd.net)

"And the movement increasingly assumed a liberationist, emancipatory character, at least cutting the first turf for our national liberation movement of 1971—fundamentally a people's war against Pakistani neocolonialism—driven as it was by its three distinctly pronounced principles: equality, justice, and human dignity. But the very anticolonial ethos of our Language Movement was also evident right from the beginning, as the movement confronted and combatted what I wish to call linguistic colonialism." Our Language Movement: Moments, Momentum, Milieu | The Daily Star

And there are millions of pieces of evidence if you look.

 

[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.

 

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

Everyone in Pakistan speaks Urdu.