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DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute\, along with the South Asia Center is pr
 oud to host Ahona Panda\, assistant professor of history from Claremont Mc
 Kenna College.&nbsp\;In the wake of 1948's unrest and\nprotests over the P
 artition\, ‘the language question’ surfaced as the main issue\ndiscussed i
 n the East Bengal Legislative Assembly in Dhaka\, East Pakistan. A\nlarge 
 cross-section of East Pakistanis\, aggrieved over Jinnah’s decision to\nim
 pose Urdu as the state language\, started to fiercely advocate for Bengali
 \nand\, until 1956\, questioned the meaning of a state language. Panda's t
 alk explores the\ncomplexities of the Bengali language movement as a polit
 ical event. By\nexamining the microhistories of a few dissenters\, she arg
 ues that the discourse\nof language was situated between two distinct poli
 tical imaginaries: the\nnationalism of Bengali (jātī) and the formulation 
 of the Pakistani nation-state\n(rāṣṭra).
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SUMMARY:Popular Sovereignty and the Bengali Language Movement in East Pakis
 tan
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The Moynihan Institute\, along with the Sou
 th Asia Center is proud to host Ahona Panda\, assistant professor of histo
 ry from Claremont McKenna College.&nbsp\;</p><p>In the wake of 1948's unre
 st and\nprotests over the Partition\, ‘the language question’ surfaced as 
 the main issue\ndiscussed in the East Bengal Legislative Assembly in Dhaka
 \, East Pakistan. A\nlarge cross-section of East Pakistanis\, aggrieved ov
 er Jinnah’s decision to\nimpose Urdu as the state language\, started to fi
 ercely advocate for Bengali\nand\, until 1956\, questioned the meaning of 
 a state language. <br></p><p>Panda's talk explores the\ncomplexities of th
 e Bengali language movement as a political event. By\nexamining the microh
 istories of a few dissenters\, she argues that the discourse\nof language 
 was situated between two distinct political imaginaries: the\nnationalism 
 of Bengali (jātī) and the formulation of the Pakistani nation-state\n(rāṣṭ
 ra).<br></p>
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