RabindroNuts advocacy for Hindi as common language of India
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claiming Bengali more resourceful than Hindi from the lingua point of view,
and urged all to recognize it as the 'People's language'. At a meeting held
at Calcutta Bishwa Bharati, he opposed Rabindranath Tagore's advocacy for
Hindi as common language of India and said, "It is Bengali having all the
qualities required for becoming the People's language."
Muslims championed the cause of Bangla
By A.T.M.Nurun Nabi
Tue, 7 Feb 2006, 09:14:00
Movement for giving Bengali the status of an official language in India
began its journey long before the creation of Pakistan. An English writer
N.B.Holhed in the year 1778 published a book named 'A Grammar of the Bengali
Language', (otherwise known as Holhed Grammar) in which he strongly
advocated for making Bengali, dropping Persian, official language of Indian
state of Bengal. He argued that the change would help the Company Government
go close to the people and to run the administration smoothly-
(Rashtrabhasha Andoloner Etihash by M.A.Barnik at page no.23).
Clearly this was the first voice for Bengali, which the Muslims gave final
touch in 1952 by compelling the government of the newly born Pakistan to
accept Bengali as one of the state languages of the country four years
later.
Nawab Ali Chowdhury, an eminent educationist, was the first Indian to have
raised the issue of making Bengali the official language of Bengal. In the
year 1911, he said at a 'Provincial Education Conference' in Rangpur that
Bengali was the mother language of the Muslims. "This is our language," he
claimed. None showed so much courage as did Nawab Ali Chowdhury, writes Dr.
Ali Newaj in his book under caption Nawab Ali Chowdhury in 1987. The Nawab
said to the British, "Whatsoever is the official language of India, Bengali
must be the official language of Bengal,"-(Ref: Bangla Rashtrabhashar
Protham Prostabak Nawab Ali Chowdhury by Abu Md. Motahar).
Seven years later, Dr. Muhammad Shahidullah advanced a step forward claiming
Bengali more resourceful than Hindi from the lingua point of view, and urged
all to recognize it as the 'People's language'. At a meeting held at
Calcutta Bishwa Bharati, he opposed Rabindranath Tagore's advocacy for Hindi
as common language of India and said, "It is Bengali having all the
qualities required for becoming the People's language." In 1947, Dr.
Muhammad Shahidullah wrote an article in the Dainik Azad on July 29 under
caption Pakistane Rashtrabhasha Samashya (Language problem in Pakistan) and
strongly pleaded for making Bengali state language of Pakistan. He wrote an
identical article in Taqvir few months later.
It needs to mention that Dainik Azad played an important role for Bengali.
In 1937 on April 23, the daily in its editorial under caption Bharater
Rashtrabhasha viewed that Bengali had all the qualities of becoming state
language of India in view of Hindi-Urdu conflict over lingua status. Abul
Hashem, MLA, Secretary of Bengal Provincial Muslim League drafted a
resolution in 1946 for making Bengali state language of the (proposed)
Pakistan.
The first organization to voice for Bengali was Tamaddun Majlish founded by
principal Abul Kashem on September 1, 1947. History has accepted Tamaddun
Majlish as the originator of the language movement and its President Abul
Kashem as the architect- (Ref: Dainik Janakantha, Feb 5, 2004, Bhasha
Andolon: Etihasher Aloke by M.A.Barnik). Tamaddun issued a booklet under
caption 'State language of Pakistan: Bengali or Urdu?'
Few months earlier on June 24, Abul Mansur Ahmad edited Dainik Millat
categorically wrote that nothing would be more subservient than rejecting
Bengali as the state language of Pakistan.
But sadly the then the civil and the military bureaucrats dominated Muslim
League Government of Pakistan failed to read the pulse of the
Bengali-speaking people. Rather they tried in vain to discover the hands of
India and the communists behind the lingua franca issue (It was a disease of
all the governments of Pakistan to smell the hands of the communists and
India in every issue). But this propaganda could not derail the movement;
instead it began to intensify day by day. Governor General Mohammad Ali
Jinnah while visiting Dhaka in 1948 twice said, "Urdu and Urdu shall be the
state language of Pakistan." It was a dead blow to the hopes and aspirations
to the Bengali people who sacrificed more than their Punjabi, Sindhi,
Baluchi and Pathan combine brethrens for the cause of Pakistan. The Dhaka
University students vehemently protested. It is said Naimuddin was the first
to say 'No'. They started agitation, joined by the mass; ignored curfew and
bullets, and then courageously paraded the city streets. The language
movement, thus, reached its peak on Feb 21, 1952 that claimed the lives of
students and non-students.
We learn from history that the Hindus unlike the Muslims stood against
Bengali and opposed at every step. The Sens who occupied Bengal in the 12th
century branded it as the bird's chirping.
They cautioned that the reading of the Purana, the Mahabharata and the
Ramayana in Bengali language would be treated as a great crime. Dr. Dinesh
Chandra Sen writes in his book 'Bengali language and Literature' that the
Brahmans by hearts opposed Bengali and condemned Krittibus and Kashiram for
translating the Ramayana and the Mahabharata into Bengali. Dr. Dinesh
concluded as saying that Bengali found its fortunes with the advent of the
Muslims in Bengal early 13th century. But the defeat of Nawab Siraj Uddowlah
at Palassey clouded the horizon. The Sanskrit Paundits, claims Philologist
Sir George Griarson, went on replacing the Bengali words with Sanskrit and
succeeded by 90 percent. Halhed condemned the step and called it
Anti-traditional. Dr. Shahidullah was of the opinion had not the Muslims
been defeated at Palassey, Bengali would have been the language of the
people. This correspondent asked a university student three years ago as to
how far did he know about the history of the language movement? He stood
silence for few minutes and gave an erroneous reply. The fault lies with the
university authority, the ministry of education and the candidate's absence
for thirst to know. "We do not want to read history and political science.
Even one who reads to increase knowledge receives derision from fellow
friends. We are more inclined to the books having little literary value,'
said a retired college teacher.
In this backdrop, it implies upon the Ministry of Education to paint the
elaborate history of the evolution of Bengali from the 12th century that the
present and the future generation can prepare them accordingly.
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The Government in the Ministry of Religious Affairs should chalk out a
project for teaching Arabic language in all jails?!!!
Why is it so important to know Arabic in Bangladesh jails?
