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Bangla language movement
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movement aimed at making Bengali Pakistan's state language
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Vinony's link graph records 1,077 inbound references to Bangla language movement, and connects out to culture of Bangladesh, Six point movement and Arabic.
Vinony files it under 1952 in East Bengal, 1952 protests and Arabization.
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Key facts
- Date
- 1948 – 1956
- Location
- East Pakistan , Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh )
- Caused by
- Decision of the central government of Pakistan and the government of East Bengal to make Urdu the only state language
- Methods
- Political demonstration Strike action
- Resulted in
- Declaration of Bengali as the official state language of Pakistan along with Urdu in 1956 Losing majority of Muslim League in East Bengal Legislative Assembly in 1954
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political movement
- Country
- Pakistan
- Located in
- East Pakistan
- Image
- 21 Feb 1952 MeetingAtAamTola.png
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- Commons category
- Bengali Language Movement
- topic's main category
- Category:Bengali language movement
- name
- Bengali language movement
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Encyclopedic overview
Lead figures
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bangla language movement” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (12)
Connections
culture of Bangladesh
Entity
Six point movement
Entity
Arabic
Entity
Bengalis
Entity
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
Entity
University of Dhaka
Entity
Khawaja Nazimuddin
Entity
Muhammad Ali Bogra
Entity
Tajuddin Ahmad
Entity
Bengali Renaissance
Entity
Governor-General of Pakistan
Entity
Bangladeshis
Entity
1970 Pakistani general election
Entity
Victory Day
Entity
Malik Ghulam Muhammad
Entity
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani
Entity
Pakistani Instrument of Surrender
Entity
Government of Pakistan
Entity
Munier Choudhury
Entity
Abul Kashem
Entity
Categories
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