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The Bengali language movement [a] was a political movement in East Bengal [b] (modern-day Bangladesh) in 1952, advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as a co-lingua franca of the then-Dominion of Pakistan to allow its use in government affairs, the continuation of its use as a medium of education, its use in media, currency and ...
It is the home of eleven tribes, the most beautiful indigenous people of Bangladesh. In this hilly area of immense beauty, eleven ethnic groups such as Chakma, Marma, Tripura, Tanchangya, Lushai, Pankho, Bawm, Mro, Khyang, Khumi and Chak live in harmony with nature. Among all of them the Chakma are the largest ethnic group in Bangladesh.
Tripuri Nationalism is an ideology that supports self-determination by the Tripuri people. [1] The conflict is in essence ethnic and the Tripuri community, indigenous to the region formed the clear majority of population in the princely state of Tippera, which joined the Republic of India in 1949 as the state of Tripura.
However, after partition, thousands of Bengali Hindus migrated to Tripura, which changed the state's demography completely. Tripura's tribes became a minority in their own homeland and lost their land holdings. As a result, a tribal insurgency began, causing violent riots among tribes and Bengalis in 1980. A low-scale insurgency has continued ...
Tripuri is the official language of Tripura, India. There are estimated to be more than one million speakers of the dialects of Tripuri in Tripura, and additional speakers in Mizoram and Assam in India, as well as Sylhet and the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh. It is also spoken in Feni.
But recently in the last two decades a substantial amount of Kokborok literature has been in the Latin Script and Kokborok alphabet. In 2004 a statewide movement called Movement for Kokborok was launched by various organisations and societies in Tripura, prominently by Kokborok society of India, Kokborok tei Hukumu Mission and Twipra Students Federation demanding the inclusion of Kokborok at ...
[8] [7] However, post-independence, the Kokborok records were outlawed and subsequently lost; [7] the main sources for Tripura history are the Sanskrit and Bengali manuscripts. [ 8 ] Kokborok was relegated to a common people's dialect during the rule of the Tripuri kings in the Kingdom of Tipra from the 19th century till the 20th century.
Joy Bangla (Bengali: জয় বাংলা; meaning 'Glory to Bengal') written in Bengali alphabet, in Pan-Bengali colours, red and white, is a slogan and war cry to indicate nationalism towards the geopolitical, cultural and historical region of Bengal and Bangamata (also known as Bangla Maa: বাংলা মা or Mother Bengal) Map of Bengali language in Bangladesh and India ...