Unpacking the politics of language in Pakistan apart from its symbolic and cultural significance as identity markers ...

THE history of Bangladesh’s independence is deeply rooted in the Language Movement of 1952, a struggle that set the stage for an eventual liberation from the oppressive regime of West Pakistan. This ...

The Urdu Adab’s special issue on Mir Taqi Mir acknowledges a past mistake of censorship and rectifies it by publishing, for ...

As Bangladesh marks Amar Ekushey today, remembering the martyrs who defied Pakistan’s linguistic oppression in 1952, the ...

Hindi and Urdu are spoken by some 500 million people in India and Pakistan, and throughout the world ... HIND 3441 Screening India: A History of Bollywood Cinema HIND 3811 The Power of the Word: ...

On January 27, 1952, when the government declared Urdu as the state language of Pakistan, the students ... rally and strongest general strike in the history of the Language Movement in Mymensingh ...