Swadhin Bangabhumi Andolan

Bangabhumi (Bengali: বঙ্গভূমি, meaning the land of Bengal) also known as Bir Bango (বীর বঙ্গ), is a separatist movement to create a Hindu country using southwestern East Bengal envisioned by Banga Sena of Bangladesh.

The movement was founded in 1973 in the Republic of India soon after Bangladeshi independence to support the Hindu refugees from Bangladesh, who were targeted by the Pakistani national army in the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities based on ideas of reconquest.[1] However, this movement did not receive much support at that time. In an interview with BBC in 2001, Chittaranjan Sutar, one of the alleged organisers of the movement, denied any existence of the movement at that time.[2] The movement openly became active again on 2003 when it declared the independence of Hindu Republic of Bangabhumi.[3] Since 2021, the Bangabhumi movement appeared to die out in Bangladesh. Groups with a similar goal formed in West Bengal and neighboring states in India. None of them gained much success.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "History of Reconquista against the Jihad in Spain (711 - 1492)". historyofjihad.org. Archived from the original on 2019-02-10. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  2. ↑ Bangladesh alleges 'separatist plot', BBC, December 22, 2001
  3. ↑ Banerjee Alok, "Hindu republic 'born' in Bangladesh" Times of India, February 4, 2003
  4. ↑ পশ্চিমবঙ্গে এবার পৃথক ‘বঙ্গভূমি’ রাজ্যের দাবি. [Officials] in West Bengal now demand a separate 'Bangabhumi' state. Prothom Alo. June 23, 2021. Archived March 12, 2025, at ghostarchive.org [Error: unknown archive URL]


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.