Bangla-centric

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From Bangla +‎ -centric.

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Bangla-centric (comparative more Bangla-centric, superlative most Bangla-centric)

  1. Emphasizing the Bengalis, their culture or what is in their language.
    • 1997, Mohammad Rashiduzzaman, “Bangladesh: From a Nation to a State”, in Pacific Affairs‎[1], volume 70, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN:
      The right wing Islamic groups and leaders who disputed the Bangla-centric secular nationalism have been insisting that separation from Pakistan did not mark the end of a predominantly Muslim consciousness in Bangladesh.
    • 2004, ʻAbdurraḥmān Ṣiddīqī, East Pakistan the End Game: An Onlooker's Journal 1969-1971‎[2], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:
      Mujib's Bangla-centric strategy created much bad blood against him and his party in West Pakistan.
    • 2015 September 3, Ian Almond, The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Islam, Empire and Loss‎[3], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 17:
      Most of these criticisms of Nirad Chaudhuri are representations of other views expressed elsewhere: a 'gratuitous' use of literary references (63), a refusal to consider 'economic factors' in his interpretation of history (68), a Bangla-centric obsession with the 'decline of Bengal' thesis (106), […]

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