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Shahidullah responded, “Urdu or Hindi instead of Bengali used in our law courts and universities would be tantamount to political slavery.” Dr. Ziauddin Ahmed, former Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh University in India, made the comment that Urdu should become the new state language of future Pakistan, Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah, a respected Bengali linguist and scholar from Dhaka University, is thought to mark the beginning of the Bengali Language Movement. In 1947, before the independence of Pakistan and India, a comment made by Dr. West Pakistan dominated the Pakistani government, military, and civil services after independence while East Pakistan struggled for power.
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Cultural, linguistic, and ethnic differences were also present between East and West Pakistan. Seventeen hundred miles of India separated the two regions. Pakistan was geographically separated into East Pakistan (modern day Bangladesh) and West Pakistan (modern day Pakistan). Large regions that were majority Muslim became Pakistan, and regions that were majority Hindu became India. The British Imperial Government, the Indian Muslim League, and the Indian National Congress split the region based on religious lines of Hinduism and Islam.
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Pakistan and India became independent from British rule in August of 1947. Language is an important aspect of culture as it communicates and preserves heritage, ideas, and identity.
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