Role of Bengali Competitive Identity in the Creation of Bangladesh: An Overview AYRIN AHMED Assistant Professor (History), School of Social Science, Humanities and Languages, Bangladesh Open University.

https://doi.org/10.59815/bhs.vol2602

Abstract: Many identities are deeply embedded in the Bengali psyche from ancient times to the present and this mentality has evolved into a diverse form over time. The creation of Bangladesh as an independent liberal state showed that a nation's identity cannot be developed by religious considerations alone, as after 1947 the East Bengal nationalism suddenly turned into the Bengali’s own cultural motion against Pakistani conservative religious motion. This article will trace the root, the competitive identities and the ideas of nationalism of Bengali on the basis of an examination of assembled sources that led to the creation of a new nation named Bangladesh. This study will try to unlock the variety of Bengal psyche from ancient period to 1971.

Keywords: Identity, Bengali Nationalism, Pluralism