[lg policy] Another Falgun On 7 May, 1954 the constituent assembly resolved with the Muslim League's support to grant official status to our language. Bangla was recognised as the second official language of Pakistan on 29 February, 1956. It words read “The state language of Pakistan shall be Urdu and Bengali." The political history of the pre-1971 Pakistan is chaotic, but not without a string of continuation. Post partition, the realisation of a national identity as Bangalis was as vibrant a feeling as our greater identity as Pakistanis. Inevitable as it was, these contrasting identities ceased through the ultimate separation on 26 March, 1971. From the very beginning, even before the division of the Subcontinent on 15 August, 1947 certain demands surfaced from what was to be the Eastern wing of Pakistan. The people expected peaceful co-existence along with our western wing, under the banner of PAKISTAN, but not subjugated in any form — political, economic or social. And it would b

[Harold Schiffman]

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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