May be Dr. Jiten Roy should read the following article by Faiz Ahmed Faiz:
He should also read the book, India Wins Freedom, by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
Jinnah insisted that Congress was a Hindu party, even when Maulana Azad was the President of that party. He also insisted that Muslim League was the legitimate representative of all the Muslims of India, even when that party did not have parliamentary majority in three principal Muslim-majority provinces, Punjab, N.W.F. and Bengal. If he was not a Muslim fanatic bigot, who was? I would insist that his talk of a secular Pakistan in 1948 was probably due to his over-consumption of alcohol on that day. He was not a serious believer in Islam; he was fanatic about his Muslim clan.
I am surprised by Dr. Roy's question, "What could have been the national language of Pakistan, other than Urdu?" Why could you not think of Bangla as a more appropriate choice?
Obviously, Urdu was the language of the Muslim aristocrats. Bangla was the language of an overwhelming majority population of Pakistan. In terms of usage in artistic and scientific literature, Bangla was better than Urdu. I would be happy to be corrected if you can provide comparative works in the two languages, both in science and in arts. My limited knowledge tells me that people like Rabindra Nath Tagore in literature and Jagadish Chandra Basu in science were not to be found in Urdu in 1948, when Jinnah wanted Urdu, the language of only 8% of the population of Pakistan, to be the national language. Thus, respecting people (democracy) was not what Jinnah had in his head.
Sukhamaya Bain.
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I tend to agree with Sukhamaya about Jinnah though
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Sorry, another mistake in the last line - it's 'state affairs', not 'national affairs'
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