Editing Bengali language movement (section)

===Reaction in West Pakistan===
Although the Language Movement is considered to have laid the foundations for [[ethnic nationalism]] in many of the Bengalis of East Bengal and later East Pakistan, it also heightened the cultural animosity between the authorities of the two wings of Pakistan.<ref name="B2g" /><ref>{{Harvnb|Uddin|2006|pp=120–121}}</ref><ref name="BH">{{cite web
 |title = History of Bangladesh
 |url = http://www.discoverybangladesh.com/history.html
 |publisher = Discovery Bangladesh
 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070609211143/http://www.discoverybangladesh.com/history.html
 |archive-date= 9 June 2007
 |access-date = 21 June 2007
}}</ref> In the western wing of the Dominion of Pakistan, the movement was seen as a sectional uprising against Pakistani national interests.<ref name="AS">{{cite journal
 | last = Rahman | first = Tariq |author-link=Tariq Rahman |date=September 1997 | title = Language and Ethnicity in Pakistan | journal = Asian Survey |publisher=University of California Press
 | volume = 37 | issue = 9 | pages = 833–839 | issn = 0004-4687
 | doi = 10.2307/2645700
 | jstor=2645700}}</ref> The rejection of the "Urdu-only" policy was seen as a contravention of the [[Islamic culture|Perso-Arabic culture]] of Muslims and the founding ideology of Pakistan, the [[two-nation theory]].<ref name="B2g" /> Some of the most powerful politicians from the [[Dominion of Pakistan#Territory|western wing]] of Pakistan considered Urdu a product of Indian Islamic culture, but saw Bengali as a part of "Hinduized" Bengali culture.<ref name="JSToldenburg" /> Most stood by the "Urdu only" policy because they believed that only a single language, one that was not indigenous to Pakistan, should serve as the national language. This kind of thinking also provoked considerable opposition in the western wing, wherein there existed several linguistic groups.<ref name="JSToldenburg" /> As late as in 1967, military dictator Ayub Khan said, "East Bengal is ... still under considerable Hindu culture and influence."<ref name="JSToldenburg" />