ETHNIC CONFLICTS: THE PROBLEMS OF BENGALI IDENTITY IN PAKISTAN AND TRIBAL IDENTITY PROBLEM IN CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS, BANGLADESH (1947-1975)
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 4
Abstract
Ethnicity has remained a crucial issue in the subcontinent that is still a center of many political movements in some countries like Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. It is vivid in post partition political scenario of these countries that people have remained more worried about their ethnic identity than religious one. It is an ethnic identity which has been playing an important role in order to connect people without any difference of religion. Likewise, politics of ethnicity is so common phenomenon in South Asia. This paper is divided into two sections: The first section highlights the role of political parties like Awami League in Bengali Language Movement in united Pakistan (1948-56). In first section, it will be highlighted that how the ethnic identity especially identity based on language, played a vital role in organizing the people of East Pakistan for getting their rights from center (West Pakistan). The second section will deal with the ethnic problems in Chittagong Hill Tracts i.e. a district of Bangladesh, and this paper will look into matter that whether Sheikh Mujeeb-ur-Rehman, founding father of Bangladesh and his party Awami League (People‟s League) took any measures to resolve ethnic issues of people of CHT after he came into power or state machinery of Bangladesh also adopted same tactics against Tribal people as such tactics were used in order to suppress Bengali identity politics in united Pakistan?
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Muhammad Qasim Sodhar And Samreen
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