Pakistaner Rashtra Bhasha: Bangla Na Urdu?

Pakistaner Rashtra Bhasha: Bangla Na Urdu? (Bengali: পাকিস্তানের রাষ্ট্রভাষা: বাংলা না উর্দু?) is a small book published on 15 September 1947 by Bengali language movement pioneer Principal Abul Kashem on behalf of Tamaddun Majlish. Within one month of Pakistan's Independent by publishing this book, it demanded introduction of Bengali as one of the state language of whole Pakistan. This book also strongly advocated for Bengali as the medium of education, court language and for its use in the offices in East Pakistan.

Tamaddun Majlish was founded by Prof Abul Kashem, a teacher, Dept. of Physics, Dhaka University, along with some other teachers and students of Dhaka University on 1 September 1947. This organization published a booklet entitled 'Pakistaner Rashtra Bhasha: Bangla Na Urdu?' (State Language of Pakistan-Bengali or Urdu?) on 15 September 1947. The booklet contained three articles contributed by Prof Qazi Motahar Hossain, an eminent litterateur and Professor of Dhaka University, Abul Mansur Ahmed, politician, litterateur and Editor, Daily Ittehad, Calcutta, and Prof Abul Kashem, the founder of Tamaddun Majlish. Prof Qazi Motahar Hossain in his article entitled 'Rastra Bhasha O Purba Pakistaner Bhasha Samasya' (State language and the language problem of East Pakistan), while trying to remove apathy towards Bengali from the minds of some people, pointed out that it was the Muslim rulers who gave liberal patronage to develop Bengali language and asserted that Bengali was very much a language of the Muslims too. Abul Mansur Ahmed in his article entitled 'Bangla Bhashai Hoibe Amader Rastra Bhasha' (Bengali must be made our state language) dealt mainly on the economic importance of the Language Movement. He cautioned that if Urdu was made the only state language of Pakistan, the educated people of East Pakistan would turn 'uneducated" overnight. In the opening article of the bookl entitled 'Amader Prastab' (our proposal), Prof. Abul Kashem put forward the basic demands of the Language Movement in most concrete terms.

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