Name of Bangladesh in Post Muslim Era

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Name of Bangladesh in Post Muslim Era
« on: April 24, 2012, 05:14:09 PM »
The same name appeared in the Portuguese records as 'Bengala' and the English made it firstly ‘Bengal’ and in 1905 A.D. on the basis of ‘Rizli Plan’, on the 16th October 1905, Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India by a declaration divided the province of Bengal into two parts. This event is known as the Partition of Bengal. According to the Partition of Bengal, the province of ‘Eastern Benga’l and Assam was formed, consisting of Dhaka, Chittagong, Rajshahi Divisions and Assam, Dhaka became the capital of the new province. On the other hand, the province of West Bengal was formed, consisting of West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, and Kolkata was made its capital. Although the proposal for the Partition of Bengal came into effect in 1905, it was officially made in the middle of the nineteenth century. After 1947, on the basis of the ‘Two Nation Theory’ it was recognized in the world as ‘East Pakistan’ up to 1971 A. D. in the record of Pakistan Government. During the Pakistan period firstly, the people as well as politicians of East Pakistan decided to use the name of our country as ‘Bangladesh’ on 5th Dec’ 1969. On the other hand on 10th April-1971, we declared the ‘Government of Bangladesh’ and seven days later this Government took its oath as ‘The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh’. Finally the day of Victory and on 16th Dec’1972, constitutionally we established the name of our country as ‘Bangladesh’.
Md. Fouad Hossain Sarker
Assistant Professor and Head
Department of Development Studies
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Daffodil International University
Dhaka-1207