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❦All-Party State Language Action Committee
All-party coordinating body of the Language Movement
All-party coalition that coordinated the 1952 campaign for Bangla's state-language recognition.
Biography
Context
In the context of The committee operated in Dhaka during January and February 1952, when organizers debated tactics, strikes, public meetings, and responses to Section 144. Its work linked earlier language-rights activism to the mass protest of 21 February., All-Party State Language Action Committee is recognized as All-party coordinating body of the Language Movement. All-party coalition that coordinated the 1952 campaign for Bangla's state-language recognition.
Contribution
The All-Party State Language Action Committee brought political parties, students, and activists together to coordinate the early 1952 campaign for recognition of Bangla as a state language.
Impact
The committee provided a coordinating structure for collective action and helped turn a language demand into a broad public movement. Its history also shows the importance of coalition politics in the Language Movement.