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The study traces how demands and goals evolved toward separation after key events, including the Pakistan Army action of 25 March 1971 and the later prominence of Awami League and Mujibur Rehman following earlier conspiratorial and political developments. 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Since the pronounced demand as well as well-defined goal of the movement changed from autonomy to the separation only after Pakistan Army‟s action on 25th March 1971 and also Awami League (AL) and Mujibur Rehman, the party and leader that spearheaded the separatist movement, got prominence as separatists after Agartala Conspiracy Case in 1966 the time and events of the origin of the Bengali Movement need tobe looked for. This paper highlights the ideological origins of Bengali separatism even before the partition of India in 1947. It also finds out the early organisations which, when got matured in later decades, became instrumental in promotion of the Bengali separatist movement. The paper then examines the development which for the first time generated the cultural and lingual feelings as well as economic grievances that nurtured the Bengali separatist movement. Therefore main research question of the paper is when and how the Bengali Movement started.  \nKeywords: Nationalism, separatism, two-nation, agartala, identity  \n* Assistant Professor, Department of History & Pakistan Studies. G. C. University, Faisalabad.  \nEmail: [rizwankokab@hotmail.com](rizwankokab@hotmail.com)  \n** Associate Professor, Department of History & Pakistan Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore. [Email: mahboob.hussain@pu.edu.pk](Email: mahboob.hussain@pu.edu.pk), [mahboob.history@pu.edu.pk](mahboob.history@pu.edu.pk)  \nOrigins of Idea for Bengali Separatism  \nThe idea of separatism in East Bengal originated in various proposals for different Muslim states in sub-continent, thus initiating a challenge of separatism even before the birth of Pakistan in 1947. Though it does not mean that the Bengalis were separatists in very start yet the broken threads of these preliminary proposalsand ideas were later joined in order to make the ideological foundation of the separatism in Pakistan. The activists of the Bengali separatism afterwards took the points from such views in order to justify their claims for a separate Bengali identity. In the start these voices of the activists were weak and less important but with the passage of time they got momentum and gathered strong support of political parties as well as masses.  \nVarious schemes of the partition of India in thirties and early forties could become sources of ideological foundations for any regional separatist tendency. It was this because the partition of India was not viewed by many as the division of India into only two Hindu and Muslim states but there were strong opinions that India must be partitioned into more than two states, even though the cause of the partition was definitely two-nation theory. Rahmat Ali, the famous originator of word Pakistan, referred to Bengal, Pakistan and Usmanistan as three independent states and suggested an alliance amongst them. Likewise, El Hamza, a Muslim writer, conceived of two predominantly Muslim areas in undivided India, one in the NorthWest and other in the North-East. Again Jamil-ud-Din Ahmed, a member of the All India Muslim League (AIML) and a lecturer in Aligarh University, considered the recognition and fulfilment of the Muslim demand for two independent Muslim states in the North-Western and North-Eastern regions of India (Ahmad J.-u.-D. , 1941, p. 88) . Moreover there was proposal of two professors of Aligarh University Dr Syed Zafarul Hasan and Dr Afzal Qadri for division of British India into three independent sovereign states _ two Muslim states of north-west India and Bengal, and one Hindu state. Then in 1939, Nawab Shah Nawaz of Mamdot, President of the Punjab ML published his scheme fo","cbCait0d3Iuh0jFC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait0d3Iuh0jFC","pdf",393199,"English","# Abstract\n## Origins of Idea for Bengali Separatism\n## Proposals and scholarly schemes before 1947\n## Debates within the All India Muslim League and Lahore Resolution","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the paper on Bengali separatism?\",\"answer\":\"The paper examines the ideological origins of Bengali separatism before India’s 1947 partition, including early organizations and the development of cultural-lingual feelings and economic grievances that nurtured the movement.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper explain the evolution toward separation?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that the movement’s pronounced demand and well-defined goals changed from autonomy to separation after the Pakistan Army action on 25 March 1971, when Awami League and Mujibur Rehman gained prominence as separatists.\"},{\"question\":\"Which earlier ideas and debates does the paper connect to the foundation of separatism?\",\"answer\":\"It traces preliminary proposals for different Muslim states and debates within the All India Muslim League, highlighting how activists later drew elements from the Lahore Resolution of 1940 to support a framework for regionalism and separatist thinking in East Pakistan.\"}]","Ideological, Cultural, Organisational and Economic Origins of Bengali Separatist Movement | PDF",1792082026]