Titas Parer Manusti: Dhirendranath Dutta.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Kino-Eye Films, 2023.

Language Note:

In Bengali.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

Within few weeks of the creation of Pakistan in 1947, on 23rd February 1948 in the Constituent Assembly held in Karachi, Dhirendranath Dutta motioned an amendment proposal. In the amendment he proposed Bengali should also be made one of the state languages of Pakistan. Though the motion was simple yet the impact of that proposal was far reaching. Surely the Pakistan ruling clique did not accept his amendment. As a result the East Bengal's Bengalees became vociferous to make Bengali as one of the state language of Pakistan. The Bengalee nationalist feeling became intense. The language movement of 1952 and the firing incident of 21st February on the students took place. And today 21st February is not only a day of the Bengali language, but has also become the International Mother Tongue Day all over the world. As he proposed Bengali to be a state language, the Pakistani rulers never forgave Dhirendranath Dutta. As a result during the liberation war of Bangladesh, on 29th March, 1971, Pakistani soldiers imprisoned eighty-five years old Dhirendranath Dutta and in April brutally killed him inside the Comilla Cantonment.

Notes:

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