East Pakistan, populated mainly by Muslim Bengalis, quickly became the subordinate partner in the new country and faced internal economic exploitation and clumsy attempts to impose Urdu as the national language of Pakistan. Under the hastily drawn up arrangements for the partition of British India in 1947, a homeland for Indian Muslims had been created with two wings, known as West Pakistan and East Pakistan, that were separated by more than twelve hundred miles of Indian terri-tory. Bangladesh is a comparatively new nation that is still in the process of taking shape – hence, it remains a “state in the making.” It became an independent country on December 16, 1971, when, after a violent liberation struggle, it seceded from Pakistan.
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