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Bangla language movement
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movement aimed at making Bengali Pakistan's state language
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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- 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.