On 19th May, 1961, in Silchar, a small town of South Assam in North East India
witnessed another fight for the Bengali language and 11 people died in police firing
to protest against the forcible imposition of Assamese on the Bangla speaking people there as a state policy. The provincial government of Assam had restricted the use of Bengali in the education of the Bengalis of Assam, despite that Bengali was their mother tongue. For this reason, on 19th May 1961 the Bengali students and youth plunged into satygraha revolution in Shilchar in order to protect their mother tongue. Again, that day the brutal Assamese police killed 11 spirited students and youth by open gunfire. The martyrs of 19th May gave their everything for the language and later the Government had to back down. Due to constant pressure from the Bengali students and youth, the Assamese provincial government was likewise compelled to recognize Bengali as the second official language of the state. Kamala Bhattacharjee, who died for right of bengali language on that day is being regarded as the first woman martyr of the world for language ! Besides Kamala Bhattacharjee, there were more 10 martyrs are Shachindra Paul, Saitendra Deb, Hitesh Biswas, Tarani Deb Nath,Birendra Sutradhar,Sunil Sarkar,Kanailal Niyagi,Kumud Ranjan Das, Sukumar Purkaysta, Chandricharan Sutrahar.
witnessed another fight for the Bengali language and 11 people died in police firing
to protest against the forcible imposition of Assamese on the Bangla speaking people there as a state policy. The provincial government of Assam had restricted the use of Bengali in the education of the Bengalis of Assam, despite that Bengali was their mother tongue. For this reason, on 19th May 1961 the Bengali students and youth plunged into satygraha revolution in Shilchar in order to protect their mother tongue. Again, that day the brutal Assamese police killed 11 spirited students and youth by open gunfire. The martyrs of 19th May gave their everything for the language and later the Government had to back down. Due to constant pressure from the Bengali students and youth, the Assamese provincial government was likewise compelled to recognize Bengali as the second official language of the state. Kamala Bhattacharjee, who died for right of bengali language on that day is being regarded as the first woman martyr of the world for language ! Besides Kamala Bhattacharjee, there were more 10 martyrs are Shachindra Paul, Saitendra Deb, Hitesh Biswas, Tarani Deb Nath,Birendra Sutradhar,Sunil Sarkar,Kanailal Niyagi,Kumud Ranjan Das, Sukumar Purkaysta, Chandricharan Sutrahar.
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