Ekushey . . . Before and After the Shootings
Syed Badrul Ahsan
21st February, 2021 02:52:58
Dhirendranath Dutta rose in the Pakistan Constituent Assembly on 25 February 1948 in defence of Bangla. He was shouted down by Liaquat Ali Khan. On 21 March 1948, speaking in Dhaka, Pakistan’s founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah, in clear disregard of Bengali sentiments, asserted that Urdu alone would be the state language of Pakistan.
The road to disaster was beginning to be paved.
Observe Ratan Lal Chakrabarty’s work, Bhasha Andoloner Dolilpotro (Documents of the Language Movement), a revealing record of the happenings leading to Ekushey 1952 and beyond.
Prior to the tragic happenings of February 1952, elements unwilling to acknowledge the primacy of the Bengali language in Pakistan went all the way voicing their determination to keep what they called the Pakistan ideology intact. The consequences were sometimes hilarious. There was the Aga Khan, with his bizarre suggestion that as a way o
Deepa Sen, leading the procession by Dhaka University students after Asad was killed on January 25, 1969.
This article considers student activism at Dhaka University in the 1960s as a case study for considering student politics at multiple scales: local, regional, and international. In addition to providing a historical narrative of Dhaka s engagement in the Mass upsurge campaign that led to the end of the Ayub Kahn regime, it also considers the ways this movement was informed by a sense of student power that extended beyond national borders.
Amanullah Asaduzzaman,
(10 June 1942 – 20 January 1969)
In 1968, of course, students were causing headaches for government leaders far beyond Pakistan s national borders and regional scale. While newspapers were under strict censorship and were limited in their ability to run stories about the activities of anti-government activity in Pakistan, they were free to report on the activities of students elsewhere, and they did so in high volu
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December 20 marks the 89th birthday of Badruddin Umar. Bangladesh s foremost Marxist revolutionary one who has been speaking truth to power for more than six decades now Umar is the author of more than a hundred books and countless articles. His three-volume work on our Language Movement of 1952 called
Purba Banglar Bhasha Andolon o Tatkaleen Rajneeti (The Language Movement in East Bengal and Contemporaneous Politics; 1970, 1976, 1981) is trailblazing, while his
tour de force also includes his two-volume work titled
The Emergence of Bangladesh (2004, 2006), published by Oxford University Press.
Indeed, we are yet to assess the entire range staggering as it is of Umar s contributions to studies of politics, culture and history, among others. I had the privilege of working with Umar closely for several years in the 1990s, as I worked as the General Secretary of Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir the country s oldest national organisation of writers, artists and activists on the left an or