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    ISAS Working Papers

    Long-term studies on trends and issues in South Asia

    63 : The Roots of Bangladeshi National Identity: Their Impact on State Behaviour

    Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury

    10 June 2009

    The growth of the consciousness of the Bengali Muslims as a distinct social and political entity that found fruition in their carving out for themselves a separate and sovereign state in 1971 was the product of a historical evolution over a period of two centuries. Their past experience is important in as much as it continues to condition their external behaviour pattern even in contemporary times.