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Journal of Social and Political Sciences Journal of Social and Political Sciences Shamsuddoha, Md. (2020), The Speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 7th March 1971: A Historical Analysis. In: Journal of Social and Political Sciences, Vol.3, No.1, 222-234. ISSN 2615-3718 DOI: 10.31014/aior.1991.03.01.161 The online version of this article can be found at: https://www.asianinstituteofresearch.org/ Published by: The Asian Institute of Research The Journal of Social and Political Sciences is an Open Access publication. It may be read, copied, and distributed free of charge according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. The Asian Institute of Research Social and Political Sciences is a peer-reviewed International Journal. The journal covers scholarly articles in the fields of Social and Political Sciences, which include, but not limited to, Anthropology, Government Studies, Political Sciences, Sociology, International Relations, Public Administration, History, Philosophy, Arts, Education, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies. As the journal is Open Access, it ensures high visibility and the increase of citations for all research articles published. The Journal of Social and Political Sciences aims to facilitate scholarly work on recent theoretical and practical aspects of Social and Political Sciences. The Asian Institute of Research Journal of Social and Political Sciences Vol.3, No.1, 2020: 222-234 ISSN 2615-3718 Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved DOI: 10.31014/aior.1991.03.01.161 The Speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 7th March 1971: A Historical Analysis Md. Shamsuddoha1 1 Senior Faculty Member, Emergence of Bangladesh (General Education), Brac University Residential Campus, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Correspondence: Md. Shamsuddoha, Senior Faculty Member, Emergence of Bangladesh, Brac University Residential Campus, Brac University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. E-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] . ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5931-8000 Abstract The 20th century witnessed a lot of nationalist movements which gave the birth of many independent states. All these nationalist movements were led by some charismatic leaders who could convince, organize and motivate people by their character, speech, and wonderful leadership. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mojibur Rahman was one of them. He was such a leader who opened the eyes of the East Pakistani people about their right, and led them towards independence. He could ignite the light of the nationalist spirit among the people by his public speaking capacity and heart-rending speech. His historic speech of 7th March 1971 is often considered as one of the most influential speeches over the world. UNESCO recognized the 7th March speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as part of the world’s documentary heritage in 2017. This study sheds light on the historical importance of that speech. An extensive historical background of this speech will also be demonstrated based on the documents of the liberation war of Bangladesh and other reliable sources. This study shows that the 7th March speech of Bangabandhu paved the way for independent Bangladesh in 1971. Keywords: Speech of Bangabandhu, 7th March 1971, Independence, Bangladesh, world heritage, UNESCO 1. Objectives This paper is expected to analyze the speech of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mojibur Rahman delivered on 7 March 1971. In addition to that, it will also be involved in the discussion of the background of that historic speech. 2. Methodology As this is historical research, it will mainly depend on historical sources. Here, the speech of 7th March will be seen from the historical point of view. A detailed background analysis will be done to clarify the historical context of the speech. Hence, the video clip and the text of this speech are the main sources of analysis. Often it 222 Asian Institute of Research Journal of Social and Political Sciences Vol.3, No.1, 2020 will be seen in the light of modern techniques of public speaking to understand the contextual meaning and the quality of articulation. The efficient use of historical facts in the speech in the guise of storytelling method will also be analyzed. 3. Introduction Bangladesh is one of those countries which gained their independence through struggle and series of movements. In the case of Bangladesh, it was even tougher because it had to gain independence twice-once from the British colonial rule and another from the semi-colonial rule of Pakistan. Pakistan emerged as an independent country in 1947, splitting off from India. The Muslim majority province of East Bengal joined Punjab, North- West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan to form an undivided Pakistan, a separate homeland for Muslims. These latter four provinces altogether comprised West Pakistan, being separated from the East by 1100 miles of Indian Territory (Asadullah, 2006). This partition and the birth of a separate state was an expected victory for the Muslims of Pakistan. But the way the partition was done, eventually that contributed to the disintegration because of three main reasons. First, the long-distance between the two wings of Pakistan which was covered by India turned into a discomfort both for India and Pakistan, and mistrust between the East and West Pakistan. Second, after the annulment of the partition of Bengal in 1911, the capital was transferred from Calcutta to Delhi. As a result, the central leadership of the Muslims in undivided India mostly fell into the hand of people living in Delhi (irrespective of their origin). Even though, All India Muslim League, the proponent of a separate homeland for Muslim, was founded in Dhaka in 1906; the main leadership during and after the partition of India fell into the hand of Muhajir leaders who migrated from Delhi to West Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947. Along with that, Muslims of Punjab became very influential in the politics of Pakistan with their overrepresentation in British armed forces which also continued in Pakistan (Schendel, 2012, p. 110). This entire leadership remained indifferent to East Pakistan and its people which increased the gap instead of conciliation. Third, Dhaka lost the status of capital during the rule of Nawab Murshid Kuli Khan. Since then, East Bengal started witnessing a huge disintegration. This declining process of East Bengal continued during British rule even faster than ever. This was supposed to be immediately addressed by the West Pakistani leadership but they increased the gulf instead, which contributed to the emergence of a new nationalism among Bengali people. Figure 1. Map of East Pakistan and West Pakistan (University of Central Arkansas, 2019) 223 Asian Institute of Research Journal of Social and Political Sciences Vol.3, No.1, 2020 The people of East Pakistan joined with West Pakistan during the partition of India in 1947 expecting it will put an end to all their deprivations which used to occur under British colonial rule. But their expectations started to vanish in the ashes from the very first year of the independence of Pakistan. It was mainly happened due to the arrogant mentality of West Pakistani vernacular elites who tried to make Urdu as the only state language denying Bangla, the language of the majority (Jahan, 1973). This attitude of West Pakistani leaders towards Bengali language and culture initiated language movement which sewed the seed of Bengali nationalism among East Pakistani people. This nationalist spirit ultimately laid down the foundation of independent Bangladesh by influencing the continuous struggle for 23 years against the repression of West Pakistan (Shamsuddoha, Influence of Bengali Nationalism and the Emergence of Independent Bangladesh in 1971, 2017). Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman recalled the memory of these 23 years in his historic speech of 7th March. However, the Language Movement clearly erected a curtain between two wings of Pakistan. One of the best examples is the division in Muslim League and the birth of Awami Muslim League in East Pakistan in 1949 (later renamed as Awami League in 1955) which led most of the movements in the 1950s, 60s and finally the liberation war in 1971. The disunity between the two wings of Pakistan started to become more fatal due to the dominating attitude of West Pakistani elites and the repeated military interventions starting from its inception. East Pakistan was the main victim of this dominating attitude and frequent military intervention because they were demographically majority which could have been only reflected in democracy and equal distribution of constituencies based on adult franchise which was impossible in a military rule and continuous denial of participatory democracy (Shamsuddoha, Refugees in India during the Liberation War of Bangladesh and Human Rights: A Historical Analysis, 2017). The Landslide victory of the United Front in 1954 (alliance of popular East Pakistani Political Parties) and the denial of power, Two Unit System in the constitution of 1956, and the victory of Awami League in the election of 1970 are some examples where West Pakistani authorities did not show any respect to the popular mandate rather tried to suppress it under autocratic rule and military intervention. For instance, after the victory in the election of 1954, United Front formed the provincial government but they were not allowed to rule the province accusing them responsible for the failure to control the riot between Bengali and non-Bengali workers of the Adamjee Jute Mills at Narayanganj. Denying the people’s verdict, Governor Rule was imposed in East Pakistan. Bangabandhu defined this as a preplanned conspiracy by the West Pakistani authority (S. M. Rahman 2012). The demand of the East Pakistani people was not even reflected in the first constitution of Pakistan in 1956 which has been portrayed in the following statement of H. S. Sahrawardy in the parliament where he stated: “The people in East Bengal have no confidence in the Ministry here or in the constitution prepared by them and they desire that adequate provision should be made in the constitution for their welfare and development (Rahman H.
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