Reviewed by Bahzad Alam Khan
Even the most ardent admirers of Mohammad Ali Jinnah have a hard time explaining why he adopted a cavalier attitude to the language question and declared in Dhaka — of all places — that Urdu alone would be the national language of Pakistan. Clearly Jinnah was unswayed by the argument that at 56.5 per cent Bengalis constituted the majority of the country’s population, though he could not have been uninformed about how strongly they resented what they viewed
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