Isn’t ‘Illegal Bangladeshi’ Racist Shorthand For Bengali Speaking Muslims In Assam

[TopCat]

@Joe Shearer ran out of argument and now resorts to circular logic. Every post of him just contradict the other.

Read your history and geography textbooks from school again.

Neither Pragjyotishpur nor Kamarupa have anything to do with Bengal. Nor does the language the inhabitants of those places in the Brahmaputra Valley spoke have anything to do with the languages that the inhabitants of the five different places that are today called Bengal and Bangladesh spoke.

In above statement he tried to imply that the political boundary limits the linguistic boundary.

In the next statement he thinks that political boundary has anything to do with linguist boundary. Completely failed logic

That was an administrative point of view that you have quoted, and has nothing to do with expert or learned opinion.
That was also a decision in 1872, when the British were trying to consolidate their hold on the newly conquered country, Assam, and did not want to consider any of the fine print.

The trouble with you Bangladeshi commentators is that you are stuck in a time warp. One of you lives in the 13th century, the other one lives in the 19th century.

 

[jaunty]

@jaunty keneke ban hol?

A Chinese mod banned me and I don't know why. Because the post was deleted and I don't remember what I wrote lol.

 

[imzy90]

Assamese is a dialect of this language group. I won't name it Bengali just to clarify for people.

They call it the Bengali-Assamese language group. Why do they have their own special subcategory in the Indo-Aryan grouping? Why are they not separated out like Odia, Maithili, hindi, gujarati etc?

There are too many commonalities. Due to the interference of American missionaries and the British Divide and Rule tactic. The Asssamese speaking people began to see themselves as a hugely distinct people. They began to perceive the Kolkata dialect to be the be all and end all of Bangla disregarding Dhakaiya, Sylheti, Chatgaiya (from Chittagong), Goalpariya etc.

In reality, the Kolkata dialects isn't capturing anyone else. it was simply chosen as a Standard.

In reality all these dialects fall under one grouping whether you ant to call it Bangla or Bengali-Assamese, it's still a fact.