I think there was also some Ban imposed by the British Raj after 1857 that no bengalis will serve in govt or military organisations. That was the reason that after partition, there were only few Bengalis in the government jobs including Army
I exactly can't remember atm,but probably bengali muslims were in serious trouble because most anti British movement happened here .
And that time army job wasn't so important like administrative jobs.
After creation of pakistan, the role of army increased I believe.
However this was started to change when after creation of Pakistan, Bangladeshis were start recruited in the army and also in the civil Services and by 1971 there were a large numbers of Bangladeshi working in the civil and military branches.
Yes bengali army was 40 thousands in number that time. However Bengalis were not interested in army jobs when pakistan was created.
Perhaps hundreds of years mistreatment by British and Hindu land Lords made them such dull!
And in 1971 not only lots of Bengalis was working in civil jobs , but also most of prime Minister of pakistan was from East pakistan .
However I was talking about that age when pakistan was just created .
Regarding Language . You only need to compare the national poets of both country . There is Tagore and Nazrul Islam who were hardcore nationalist and opposed the idea of separate Bengal and have huge Hindu influence on their work while you have Iqbal whose poetry is totally different than the 2 great Bengalis poet
Yes agree. Tagor is Hindu so no argument, it's natural for him . But nazrul was also too much inspired by Hindu culture.
He was hybrid actually, he wrote man hamd and naat ( type of gazals praising Allah and prophet (pbub) ) ,and also wrote shama Sangeet that is songs praising goddess Kali ( the wife of shva for shaivas ,but the eternal power for bengali shakta Hindus) , so Nazrul was just nominal Muslim.
But really language has nothing to do with religion .
Simply deprived , opressed uneducated Muslims was not good at literature that time .
Yet we had some good writers too ,like abul mansur Ahmad , Sayed muztaba Ali ,Mir mosharraf Hussein , and many more .
Just they were not poets and not popular among common class ( that time) .
Bengalis police who confronted the protesters and remember it was Khawaja Nazumuddin who was the Governor of East Pakistan that time.
Yes . But here currently those history are ignored.
Now bangladesh is in a serious crisis on history honestly .
Peoples are forgetting everything related to anti British movement and pakistan movement .
Now they are just learning f.ucking bengali spirit,that what Bengal did, what bengalis are doing etc .
And the history is terribly revolving around one man man named mujib .
Like what he did , what pipe he used to smoke , what was his sacrifice for bengali, why he is superior to all other politicians in history ,
Why he is the life giver of Bengalis ,why he is the Jesus of 1971 blah blah blah ...
Now they are celebrating home return day (from Pakistan) of the deity ,and 31 October is also recognization day of his holy speeches(?) to in 7 March 1971 .....
Such countless B.S you even can't imagine. So all history is gone except history of mujib.
Poor mujib is even not spared in grave too.
He was a good man, but thug version of awami league is just doing business using his corps since 2009 .
P.S : another thing ,that poetry homo sapience added as attachment that was written by a bengali poet who was born in 1620 .
Before those era bengali literature was patroned by Muslim sultans , later in British era hijacked by Hindus.
However the poetry was about them who disgrace bengali language ,the poet doub about the origin of their birth .
This poet was religious muslim .
Yet homo sapience played the dirty game imposing his fictitious bengali ideology, tagging me as anti bengali while I even can't read a single Urdu in nastaliq . I just can read Quran in nastaliq like other Bengalis.
And this poetry is also is in his signature now only to degrade peoples who are anti bengali in his point of view.
Although the poetry was not written against common folks like us , but was written against those elites who ignored bengali language as the language of Hindus .
Abdul hakim's fight was against them who labeled Bengal language as hindu language and ignore it when writing .
