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Year:
1952, February 21
Short description:
Student protests against Urdu becoming national language
Medium description:
Student protests in Dhaka against the PM's statement that Urdu would become the national language of Pakistan
Tags:
in Pakistan
Ayres, Alyssa (2003). The Politics of Language Policy in Pakistan. in Brown, M. E. & Ganguly, S..
Fighting Words: Language Policy and Ethnic Relations in Asia
. Cambridge: The MIT Press, pp.51-80 [p.59]