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  • Chapter 12 - The Pakistan Experiment

  • from Part III - Becoming East Pakistan
  • Willem van Schendel, Universiteit van Amsterdam
  • Book:
    A History of Bangladesh
    Published online:
    17 June 2021
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020, pp 129-143

  • Summary

    The Bengal delta now became part of Pakistan, a uniquely complex post-colonial state: founded upon religious nationalism; administering two discrete territories, separated from each other by about 1,500 km of Indian terrain; and not heir to any of the colony’s central state institutions. Tensions between West and East Pakistan immediately surfaced. East Pakistani grievances crystallised around the question of the national language (Urdu or Bengali), leading to the language movement. After a decade the army stepped in, establishing a military dictatorship that would dominate the remaining years of ‘united Pakistan’.