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Popular Sovereignty and the Bengali Language Movement in East Pakistan
Virtual
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The Moynihan Institute, along with the South Asia Center is proud to host Ahona Panda, assistant professor of history from Claremont McKenna College.
In the wake of 1948's unrest and
protests over the Partition, ‘the language question’ surfaced as the main issue
discussed in the East Bengal Legislative Assembly in Dhaka, East Pakistan. A
large cross-section of East Pakistanis, aggrieved over Jinnah’s decision to
impose Urdu as the state language, started to fiercely advocate for Bengali
and, until 1956, questioned the meaning of a state language.
Panda's talk explores the
complexities of the Bengali language movement as a political event. By
examining the microhistories of a few dissenters, she argues that the discourse
of language was situated between two distinct political imaginaries: the
nationalism of Bengali (jātī) and the formulation of the Pakistani nation-state
(rāṣṭra).
Category
Social Science and Public Policy
Type
Virtual
Region
Virtual
Open to
Public
Organizer
MAX-Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Accessibility
Contact Matthew H. Baxter, PhD to request accommodations