secular construct of the Bengali

The Awami League (AL), led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, had secured Bangladesh’s independence in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War: which was fought against the in the post-partition Panjabi-Pathaan hegemony over the Pakistani government and the military, political exclusion of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and an imposition of Urdu as the national language. Built on the back of the Bangla Bhasha Movement (Bengali language Movement), linguistic autonomy defined Mujibur’s secular construct of the Bengali ethnic identity. However, the assassination of Mujibur in 1975, and the subsequent military-government led by Zia-ur Rahman, introduced a religious difference to distinguish the Bangladeshi nation from Bengalis who inhabited West Bengal in India. A Bangladeshi was not only to be an ethno-linguistic Bengali, but also a Muslim, marking a more distinct national identity from both, the Bengalis (but Hindus) of India and Muslims (but not Bengalis) of Pakistan. สล็อต