Did Bengalis leave marks of their Culture on West Pakistan?

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Re: Did Bengalis leave marks of their Culture on West Pakistan?

@muqawwee123

There was definitely political discrimination, but things were portrayed out of proportion in Bengal. Sheikh Mujeeb’s six points contained demand fro separate currency and separate army for Bengal, which are features of separate state. These points were presented in 1966, which shows that they had already decided for opting separate state, but then all the blame was given to Pak army and politicians of west Pakistan.

In hindsight, East and West should have been created as two separate states from start.
At least there would not have been the bloodshed in 1971.
Looks like everything was done in such a rush at the end ( 1947 - the original time-frame for partition was 1948 ? ) that not enough time and thought was put into the future nation-building, just like how Kashmiris didn’t get the time/opportunity to decide their future.
I saw in some TV discussion that an Indian general had acknowledged that the Indian army was preparing for the break-up of Pakistan for about a year and Mukti Bahini militant/terror training camps were operating in India for about a year before December 1971.
Whereas the greedy Pakistani leadership was playing its own game or was clueless (much like today).

@the_kaur

Winners write the history, If bengalis fail to acknowledge their mistakes, they are definately going to repeat it. No doubt, Mujib’s six points were actually of seperation from concept of Pakistan, probably these were political concept to leverage more political power for bengalis, like intial demand of Pakistan, which was supposedly politcal arguement to leverage out more for muslims from united India. Infact if Mujib would have got prime ministership, possibly there wouldn’t have been any bangladesh, just like, had Jinnah been given premiership of India (like mahatma wanted) there might have been no partition at all. Mostly poltical ambition of leaders get intertwined with national decisions

Jinnah would have settled for premiership of India ? Interesting question.