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While the Jubo League the Communist Party the Awami Muslim league etc. viewed the question of state language within a broad. socioeconomic context, there were other groups which appeared to deny the Inextricable relationship between a people's mother tongue and national identity, but yet campaigned for the right of Bengali to be a state language of Pakistan from the outset.
One such group. set up on September 2. 1M7 by a few Dhaka University teachers and students, was the Tamuddun Majh.
The Majlis, primarily a cultural organisation founded to cultivate Islamic culture in East Bengal, joined the state language debate on September 15. 1947 with a booklet entitled "Pakistan's State Language - Bengali or UrduT
In that booklet, the Majlis s secretary. Professor Abu! Kawm penned a set of demands which called for both
Bengali and Uidu to be made the official languages of the new slate.
There were also some powerful contributions from non-Majlis people in the booklet. For Instance. Abul Mansur Ahmed. editor of the Calcutta-based Bengali daily .The I tie had wrote:
"If Urdu Is made the slate language of Pakistan then the educated community of East Pakistan would overnight become 'illiterate' and unfit’ for government Jobs "
Perhaps the most farsighted observation came from Dr Kazi Motahar Hossain of Dhaka University. According to Bad rudd in Umar's three-volume "East Bengal's language Movement". Dr
Hossain wrote In the booklet:
"If attempts are now made to Impose Urdu as state Ian-
guage on Bengalee Muslims and Hindus, then it will full, because smouldering discontent cannot be kept under wraps for long. In that case there will be a danger of an end to the relationship between East and West ( Pakistan).'
The year was 1947.
From there on. Tamuddun Majlis played a prominent role in the movement that gathered pace after Dhircndranath Dutta's proposal of Feb. 23. 1948 that Bengali should be a state language, was rejected by Llaqal All Khan and Khwaja Nazamuddin.
The Mujlis. along with the East Pakistan Muslim Chattra League, the Conalanlrik Jubo league. Gano Azadl League and various student hall unions, look the initiative to hold a meeting on March 2 at the Fazlul Haq Hall.
The meeting, attended by Abul Kascm. Sardar Fazlul Karim. Rancsh Das Gupta. Tajuddln Ahmed. Mohammad I'oalia. Ajit Guha. Sliahidullah Kaiser. OH Ahad. Idly Khan and Olivers set up a State lauiguage Action Committee ( SLAC) with Shamsul Alam of tlic Majlis as tlx- convenor.
The province-wide hartal of March 11. 1948 was the result of this committee's decision.
However. Tamuddun Majlis's role in the movement was to become increasingly controversial as time progressed and the battle took on other dimensions.
An indication of such a turn was given as early as the March 2 meeting . when Abul Kascm prevented Ajit Guha from becoming a member of SLAC on the grounds of Guha's rellgkin.
Guha, a representative of the progressive Writers Forum argued, to no avail, that the language movement was a democratic one and communal division had no part In it.TImc ♦as lo prove Guha right and Kasem wrong.
According to Umar, the real motive behind Kascm's objection to Guha was lo keep the progressive Writers Forum out of the Committee. In later months and years, such narrow and divisive tactics of the ma-jlis became more pronounced and frequent, causing the group to rapidly fade from the nerve-centre of the movement In particular and the political mainstream of the country in general.