Dhirendranath Datta and the Bengali Language Movement (1)

On Feb 25, 1948, in the Pakistan Constituent Assembly Dhirendranath Datta said: ‘But, Sir, if English can have an honoured place in Rule 29 — that the proceedings of the Assembly should be conducted in Urdu or English — why Bengali, which is spoken by four crores forty lakhs of people, should not have an […]