When someone says that GOD created Bangladesh, I do ask who that GOD is? God of Muslims? God of Hindus? God of Buddhists? or What GOD? Definitely all these GODs are not the same God! It can't Be! Because if it was the same God then it would perceive Him as the loveless, mindless, and careless God who never minds in human welfare. Why I am saying all these?
Just look at th period of last 800 years in the areas of Bangladesh, what happened and how much tragedy have been inflicted upon the people of the area of now Bangladesh, even if we do not look at any other parts of the world.
Shujola shufola shoshyo shyamola Bangladesh (regardless what it used to be called) attracted people from all over and any one once came to Bengal, did not go back by the pull of its peace, beauty, ease of life, a surety of living there with a permanent settlement. The language of the territory of Bengal was Bangla.
The history of ancient Bengali is based on copper plate inscriptions and stone script findings. The oldest epigraphical record, found at Mahastangar in the Bogra district of Bangladesh is a very short inscription on stone written in Prakrit. Archaeologists believe it to have been written in the third century B.C.; the script shows the Brahmi characters of the time of Asoka. The inscription contains the word 'Pundrabardan which was a renowned Buddhist and Jain center of learning in Bengal.
An early form of Bengali can be found in the grants of the Pala kings. A distinct literary flair appears in these documents, which contain a number of verses ; the kings commissioned court poets and pundits to draft the literary and panegyrical sections. Bengali inscriptions form the fifth century onwards preserved old place names, the study of which can throw more names were Sanskritized, in order to give them some respectability.
From ancient times we find various languages of the following families spoken in Bengali : the Austric (Mon-Khmer and Kol), the Dravidian, the Sino-Tibetan or Tibeto-Chinese, and lastly the Indo-European (Aryan). If a Negroid people ever existed in Bengal then they may have, in ancient times, spoken a language related to Andamanese. All these tribes had their own languages, or which they were proud.
Speakers of Austric are believed to have entered Bengal through Assam from Northern Indo-China. The Austrics were succeeded by the Dravidian speakers, who appear to have been concentrated in West Bengal. However, we do not have enough information on them to be certain of this. Then came the Tibeto-Chinese or Sino-Tibetan tribes, belonging mainly to the Tibeto-Burman group- the Bodos and others - who overcame the earlier Austric settlers in North and East Bengal. Finally came the Aryans. The Aryanzation of Bengal may be said to have begun during the closing centuries of the first millennium B.C. Non-Aryan dialect did not disappear right away.
It is important to note that the languages spoken by all these ethnic groups and tribes contributed to the language that the language that is now Bengali. The Bengali language as such not born before 700 A.D.
Aryans entered India up to the time of three periods :
- The Old Indo-Aryan period, from the time the Aryans entered India up to the time of Buddha (roughly from 1500 B.C. to 600 B.C.), Vedic and Early Sanskrit are representative of this period.
- The Middle Indo-Aryan period, which appears to have manifested itself in the Aryan language earlier in Eastern India than in North Western India and which continued from the time of Buddha up to 1000 A.D. Pali, Asokan and other inspirational Prakrits, and the later Prakrits and Apabhramsa of literature are representative of the Aryan speech of the period.
- The new Indo-Aryan period, which began about 1000 A.D., when the modern Indo-Aryan languages or vernaculars emerged out of the Apabhramsas.
This comes into conflict with the view that North Indian languages like Bengali developed in the seventh century A.D.
Bengali is derived from Magadhi Prakrit, which was the official language of the great emperor Asoka. A related dialect was used by Buddha and by Mohavira, the apostle of Jainism. In Bengal in the their of the first millennium B.C. no Aryan language was spoken but the people there had their own language and possessed great artistic skills. During the period of Asoka, the Prakritic or Magadhi form developed into Bengali. About a thousand years ago two kinds of language were apparently in use : the Sauraseni Apabramsa and the native language of Bengal, Proto-Bengali which had become Old Bengali by 1000 A.D.
As Bengali began to take shape and become the common language, the attitude of the learned class towards popular language was that it was a vulgar language or 'Apabhramsa', which meant 'speech fallen off'. In Bengali Pundits described Sanskrityzed literary Bengali as sadhubhasa and the actual living Bengali as apa-bhasa.
It is sometimes difficult to locate Bengali manuscripts because in addition to the Bengali alphabets, Oryia, Maithili, Devnagari, Newari, Sylheti, and nagari alphabets were also used. Later on Arabic and Persian were also acceptable as a medium of expression in Bengal. Weather conditions are also very unkind to old manuscripts.
The Bengali manuscripts known as the Pundits were generally on 'tulat' or stained paper. The majority of the existing Puthis belong to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The cayyas composed between the seventh and twelfth centuries and the Sri-Krishna-kirtan of the fifteenth century are the oldest.
Although a systematic and continuous search has never been conducted, it is believed that Bengali manuscript may be found in different libraries, temples and private collections in many countries including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Bhutan and China.
In Bangladesh the following places have valuable manuscripts but some of them are lying in total neglect are in danger of being destroyed by fire, dust and time :
- Ramamala Library, Comilla.
- Kaiballadham Ashram, Pahartali, Chittagong.
- Vatendra Research Society, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi.
- Dhaka University Library, Manuscript and Rare Books Section, Dhaka.
- National Museum, Dhaka.
- Bangla Academy, Dhaka.
So, our past generations came through all these social changes, admixtures, ad joints, culturally, linguistically, and traditionally. The religion islam started spreading in Bengal during last 800 years after the muslim conquest in Bengal. From 800 years ago for quite sometime, islam has been found by some people of Bengal, specially non-brahmin, non-rich, non-political people as to provide better social protections compared to caste-systems of hinduism and hermitism of the the buddhist religions. Equality amongst individuals and group protections collectively would have been found better in islam. Also, the muslim rulers provided a number of incentives to the converts and simultaneously the sufis from the eastern parts of the middle-east such as from Iran, Azarbizan, shyam, etc. kept coming in flocks to spread their philosophy of oneness in religions, regardless of what they practice or believe in. Huge number of people became their followers resulting wholesale conversion of people into islam for a few hundred years. The came the Mughals and Pathans. Many of these rulers have denied the control,from the center such as from Delhi or Agra, and declare themselves as Independent Rulers. The modern Bangal evolved during this period. Alauddin Hussain Shah set up a commission with the learned pundits who set in Arakan for quite a long time and developed the modern Bangla Script and developed the Modern Bangla language that we have now. The bengali grammar was written later by an Italian missionary father that we use now-e-days as the bengali grammar.
After all these when British captured Bengal and in next 100 years captured entire India and Burma, Bengal started suffering a lot. Looking at the bengali terrorism against the British-Raj such as Khudirm, Titumir, etc., British wanted to introduce the principle of "Divide & Rule". Divided the bangla-speaking lands into three major provinces: Assam, East Bengal And West Bengal. West Bengal became basically the homeland of hindu elites, Assam for tribal bangla/assamese speakers, and East bengal for the backward muslims having no access to any modern infrastructures, education, or communications. Muslims remained in the darkness for long time. Then when India-Pakistan division came, british asked muslims to vote for India or Pakistan. Being muslims they voted for Pakistan and evolved as East-Pakistan 1000 miles from four other provinces of Pakistan, where capital and all activities of the country belonged to. East pakistan soon became like a colony of West Pakistan to pay taxes and provide raw materials, but instead having no progress and development.
In 1971, Pakistan denied East Pakistan's success in the vote, cracked down with military, killed and raped millions of Bangalis, with a view to reduce the number of voters from East Pakistan and to change the look of the bangali face, giving birth the children who would look lie the Punjabis, changing totally the demography of East Pakistan. By religions, the Punjabis were muslims, who would be punished to death, according to their religion, if raped anyone else other than the wives. But the double standard Pakistani Government introduced this vicious practice and protected by all means those criminal killers and rapists. At the end, finding no way, millions of people fled to India to save themselves from the savage punjabis and the heinous Pakistani Government. In order to get rid of millions of Bengali refugees, India had to fight Pakistan to subdue and compell the
Pakistanis to leave East Pakistan, giving rise to the Independence of Bangladesh. Bengali Youths fought along side the Indian army in the fight against Pakistan. These brave youths are being honored by all Bangladeshis for ever as the "Freedom-Fighters" or "Mukti-Judhha".
Later by the conspiracy of the Pakistani Government, ISI, and middle-eastern Jihadi and ultra-riches by Oil, the sanctity of Bangladesh were torn. The father of the nation and his family were brutally killed by pro-islami faction of the Army. They captured the government, changed consttution, pakistanized, islamized and radicalized the entire country for three decades.
During the rule of these faceless dictators, bangladesh totally lost its spirit of why bangladesh was established.
Last year, the people of Bangladesh defeated, by the ballot of the majority, the continuation of that ugly regime.
However, their agents are all over, working too hard underground, and when possible surfacing above, for re-capturing the power of the Government. Pakistan, ISI, and Middle-Eastern radicals are helping the bengali traitors to defame the spirit of independent bangladesh and a secular humanistic bangladeshi culture, rather to be radicalized to dictatorial nomadic islamic harshism.
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com
From: Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:02:57 -0500
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] And God created Bangladesh at the end.
Dear All,
Last few debates which is going on in this column about secularism and communalism, if we go a bit in our past history, Muslims of East Bengal were the victims of torture by Hindu Zaminders and Muslims were put in a down trodden position and were given less facilities in all sphere of their life starting from education up to economic development as a whole. As a result Muslims used to remain poor and poorer in comparison to those Hindus and were the back and call of those Hindus and Hindu Zaminders as it is evident by one Muslim favoured Hindu writer Sharat Chandra Chattopaddya in his story "MOHESH". Of course there was another cottor anti-Muslim Hindu writer Bankim Chandra Bandopaddya was a serious anti-Muslims as is evident in all of his anti-Muslim writings. What Hindus are feeling now a days similarly before 1947 Muslims also living in their own majority Muslim populated home land in East Bengal used to feel like that.
Due to all of these Muslims of East Bengal supported and voted overwhelmingly to join with Pakistan to create a separate state for the Muslims. Only one benefit we got being in one Pakistan our Muslims uplifted by their education and economically. Except these later on it was found again in creating Pakistan the idea of separate muslim state were completely spoiled and failed by some high headed Pakistani Army Generals, Pakistani rulers (I mean West Pakistani) and power hungry West Pakistani foolish Politician Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. We should not forget also if Pakistan would not be created at that time to-day there would be no Bangadesh, there would be another Kashmir and the fate of us would be similar to that of Kashmir even worst than that.
Rferring to Mr. Shyamal Dutta what Mr. Syed Aslam told is partially true as "According to the news item, Mr. Shayamol Dutta was only a key note speaker, who mentioned that in 1947-division was based on communalism.
By arranging a round table conference or raising hue and cry in New York (USA) by Hindu, Bouddhya, Christian Aikkay Porishod lead by Sitangshu Guha and many others, is there any benefit to create more bitterness and communal feeling? Whether that sorts of communal disturbances is prevailing in our country for which so much media propaganda is going on?
In 1947 when I was small and a school going student in Assam, I was an eye witness of those Hindu Muslim riots. Also riots flared up in Calcutta, West Bengal the history of which many of our younger generation don't know yet.
My gratitude to the Late H.S. Sorwardy alongwith him our Bongo Bandhu Sk. Mujibur Rahman who came forward to the rescue of the Muslims of Calcutta by risking their lives at that very moment. Here I like to tell the history of the past only. Again I like to request not to see it in the communal viewpoint. Regards to all.
Dowllah.
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