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