The Promised Land = Swapnabhumi / directed by Tanvir Mokammel.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Mokāmmela, Tānabhīra, director.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

Bengali

Subjects (All):

Bihari (South Asian people)--Bangladesh--History.

Bihari (South Asian people).

Bihari (South Asian people)--Bangladesh--Social conditions.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (90 min.)

Other Title:

Swapnabhumi : the promised land

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Tanvir Mokammel, 2007.

Language Note:

In Bengali.

Original language in Bengali.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This is a story of six decades, three countries and statelessness. A story about the Urdu-speaking community of Bangladesh. The terms 'Urdu-speakers,' 'Non-Bengalees' and 'Biharis' are used interchangeably to refer to Muslim people who originally emigrated from India to the newly created East Pakistan in 1947 and afterwards. Many of them, but by no means all, originated from the state of Bihar and were fleeing large scale communal massacres. Three decades later, during the struggle for independence of Bangladesh in 1971, this community became embroiled in conflict. Branded as collaborators against Bangladesh independence, this moment became a defining one for the Urdu-speakers and has had a devastating legacy. This story is about the 160,000 people from this community who live isolated in 116 camps or settlements in Bangladesh now.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 09, 2015).

OCLC:

911712107