Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ƙarshen mulkin Biritaniya, manyan sassan Bengal sun zama Gabashin Pakistan. Gwamnatin sabuwar Dominion ta Pakistan, wacce ke yammacin Pakistan (ƙasar Pakistan ta yanzu) ta ba da umarnin Urdu a matsayin harshen hukuma kawai. Wannan matakin ya fuskanci adawa daga ƙungiyar harshen Bengali kuma gwamnatin Pakistan ta amsa zanga-zangar a 1952 ta hanyar kashe ɗalibai a Jami'ar Dhaka. Kodayake an warware batutuwan yare a hukumance a cikin 1956 a cikin sabon kundin tsarin mulki, Yaƙin 'Yanci na Bangladesh na gaba
a 1971 ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen kara tabbatar da matsayin yaren Bengali a cikin 'yancin Bangladesh.