'State borders: a Means to Unify, Divide or Homogenize'

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Abstract

The research aims at understanding the relationship between state borders and cultural borders, and focus on the statement State borders: a Means to Unify, Divide or Homogenize. This is done in relationship to Bangladesh. Within the short span of 25 years, Bangladesh had undergone two different national movements - the first taking place in 1947 which led to the creation of Pakistan, and the second in 1971 which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh and its secession from Pakistan. Bangladesh, literally stands for the land of Bengal, in the long form is known as the Republic of Bangladesh. Bangladesh is a country of the Indian subcontinent. Located north of Bay of Bengal, nearly landlocked in India, it has a small border with Burma. In addition to this, the financial constraints and time-limited breadth and depth of research could include many more variables and to obtain information about the larger population in order to deduce a lot stronger.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION1

Overview1

Bangladesh2

Research objective5

Ethical issues5

Validity5

Internal validity5

The external validity6

Reliability6

Test-test reliability6

Limitations6

CHAPTER 02: LITERATURE REVIEW8

Intercultural ethnic identity8

The mobilisation of Bengali ethnic identity10

The nationalist movement and how it was mobilized12

Bengali Identity15

The Bengali Language Movement16

CHAPTER 02 - 1: BANGLADESHI IDENTITY19

Identity of the Bengali19

Modern Issues20

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY24

Research Methodology24

Grounded theory method24

CHAPTER 04: RESULT AND DISCUSSION27

Bangladesh's independence27

The independence war and the genocide of Bangladesh (1971)27

Impact of religion on Nationalism29

CHAPTER 05: LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY31

CHAPTER 06: CONCLUSION32

REFERENCES33

CHAPTER 01: INTRODUCTION

The research aims at understanding the relationship between state borders and cultural borders, and focus on the statement State borders: a Means to Unify, Divide or Homogenize. This is done in relationship to Bangladesh.

Overview

According to Bhardwaj, within the short span of 25 years, Bangladesh has had two national movements - the first done in 1947, which led to Pakistan and the other in 1971, which led to the secession of Bangladesh and Pakistan. These two moments of violent rupture of the two had an impact on shaping identity, but each in different ways. After 1947, the situation was confusing the former is dead, and the new has not yet been born. During this interim period, the national political state of East Bengal was invaded by various combinations of secularism, socialism, democracy and linguistic nationalism. Later, after 1971, the country became a military dictatorships and the rise of more strident Islamic ...