Everything you have said in your post is pure conjecture. You are speculating that leftists took the wealth of EP to WP but at the same time blame them for engineering the split too?
the agitators did not
take the wealth, but forced the wealth to go to WP. i mentioned the reasons in my last post. that includes for example anti-Urdu and anti-lot of things perceived to be of Bengali Muslim aristocracy.
no i don't blame them for that. i blame them for engineering an Indian run-over
why did so many abandon their wealth in WP and work for separate EP? You're making no sense at all.
EP-origin people who settled or were working in WP, and then repatriated to post-1971 BD generally were able to liquidate their wealth. i don't see how this topic helps your point
Here are some facts - please try to analyse these with an open mind;
- In 1948 there were 11 textile mills in EP and only 9 in WP.
- By 1971 there were 26 in EP but now 150 in WP.
i don't see your info in your link. look you are trying to assert something that is not even debated, irrespective of which party/nation/opinion you belong to. East Bengal in 1947 was a total hinterland. East Pakistan and West Pakistan were both called moth-eaten and truncated, because they were said to have been stripped of almost all economic/industrial centers of undivided British India, which India instead got. at least West Pakistan had Lahore. i am not refuting your numbers. all i am saying is it was natural that WP experienced more development, because A. it already had better resources/capita and human capital at the 1947 point, and B. a comparatively more and more favourable demography and political env as time progressed from 1947 onward.
So we did better in 1948 on our own - where does this sit with your ridiculous idea that EP lacked talent? In fact EP was renowned for its intellectuals at the time.
in pre-1947, the Muslims of the entire subcontinent were dissatisfied with the way things were going for too long, and alarmed at the prospect of living as second-class subjects in an independent undivided Hindustan. this issue was even more aggravated for the Muslims of Bengal-Bihar-Orissa region. the Muslims of the region were hit by the worst famines, had the lowest literacy rates and East Bengal, a Muslim majority place, had virtually no growing urban center. Jahangirnagar the once thriving capital (Dhaka) until Siraj ud Daula was reduced to a dead city. in 1905-1947, there were minor signs of development in East Bengal, but it was a lot for the hinterland, that you can say
we did on
our own.*
i don't know what to say regarding such statements that East Bengal, a land of predominantly farmers, was "renowned for its intellectuals". or maybe you were referring to the Hindus, who were the majority of landowners and money-lenders? not surprisingly they are better suited to be intellectuals and bring about their renaissance
as a Bangladeshi i should naturally be concerned about the progress of this landmass from 1947 to 1971, even if it was geographically a fraction of *the* country. even if i don't agree with your numbers, i couldn't accept the deprivation of this landmass. and even if i don't think non-Bengali Muslims were evil, there were legitimate issues that needed to be addressed about EP. those issues wouldn't have included an Indian annexation of EP, nor could an Indian annexation address those issues.
*Muslims of Bengal were never really 'Bengalis' pre-1947, they were just Muslims like any other Muslim of the subcontinent. and that says a lot about the composition of Bengal's Muslim population. the development in 1905-1947 was spearheaded by the Muslim League which was gaining more support in Bengal.
What are you thinking? Its not so easy to rewrite history.
i'm glad you are saying this
As the saying goes 'Begani shaadi main Abdullah dewana' ! Pakistan has moved on mate but some of our own seem not to have.
the majority of today's geographic Pakistan did not come under Indian control. the same cannot be said of us. and no, no country "moves on" from its roots and identity. for Bangladesh, if you care about its map, its roots in the Muslim struggle for emancipation and in the Lahore Resolution cannot be denied