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Aimed at providing organized resistance against the anti-Bengali policies of the central government of
Pakistan and to protest against comments about the Bengali language and script made by Fazlur Rahman, the Central Education Minister, the Tamuddun Majlish took the lead in the formation of the first
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presided over the protest meeting, and a number of students and teachers including Munir
Choudhury, Abdur Rahman, Kallayan Dasgupta, A.K.M. Ahsan, S. Ahmed, and Farid Ahmed, the Vice President of Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU), addressed the meeting.
199:. They also forcefully articulated the demand for Bengali to be one of the State languages of Pakistan. The seminal booklet also contained a succinct proposal, authored by Principal Abul Kashem in favor of the Bengali language, the gist of which is:
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that the demand to adopt
Bengali as one of the state languages was "not at all motivated by the anti-state elements and communists of East Bengal." On September 15, 1947, Tamuddun Majlish issued a pamphlet titled
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Tamaddun Majlish was to invigorate the Islamic spirit and culture of the new nation of Pakistan, the vigorous role played by this pro-Islamic organization made it clear to the
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to adopt Urdu as the only state language of
Pakistan. The protest meeting attracted a large number of students, teachers and others from Dhaka University and other educational institutions. Professor
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Principal Abul Kashem (General Secretary of Tamuddun Majlish), made a strong case for introducing Bengali as the only language of instruction, offices and courts of
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Urdu may be treated as the second language or inter-province language in East
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The position of
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was no longer governed with the idealism that had been promised. This led most of the members of the
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provided the organizational structure needed to launch the language movement in the latter part of 1947 and the early months of 1948.
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Bengali should be the first language for the purpose of education in East
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Artistic depictions of the Bengali Language Movement
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