Editing Bengali language movement (section)

===Muhammad Ali Jinnah's visit to Dhaka===
[[Image:Quaid-delivering-speech copy2.jpg|thumb|left|[[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] on 21 March 1948 told at a public meeting that ''State language of Pakistan is going to be Urdu and no other language.''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://jinnah.pk/2009/09/27/national-consolidation/ |title=NATIONAL CONSOLIDATION |access-date=21 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140521104719/http://jinnah.pk/2009/09/27/national-consolidation/ |archive-date=21 May 2014 }}</ref>]]
In the height of civic unrest, [[Governor-General of Pakistan]] [[Muhammad Ali Jinnah]] arrived in Dhaka on 19 March 1948. On 21 March, at a civic reception at [[Suhrawardy Udyan|Racecourse Ground]], he claimed that the language issue was designed by a "[[fifth column]]" to divide Pakistani Muslims.<ref>{{Harvnb|Umar|2004|p=34}}</ref><ref name="SA9">{{cite web |title=De-Pakistanisation of Bangladesh |url=http://www.saag.org/%5Cpapers22%5Cpaper2199.html |author=R. Upadhyay |publisher=Bangladesh Monitor, South Asia Analysis Group |date=7 April 2007 |access-date=16 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611044641/http://www.saag.org/papers22/paper2199.html |archive-date=11 June 2007}}</ref> Jinnah further declared, in English, that "Urdu, and only Urdu" embodied the spirit of Muslim nations and would remain as the state language,<ref name="Banglapedia" /><ref>{{Harvnb|Uddin|2006|pp=2–4}}</ref><ref name="UStudies">{{cite book |editor1=James Heitzman |editor2=Robert Worden |url=http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/ |title=Bangladesh: A Country Study |access-date=16 June 2007 |chapter=Pakistan Period (1947–71) |chapter-url=http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/14.htm |publisher=Government Printing Office, Country Studies US |year=1989 |isbn=0-16-017720-0}}</ref><ref name="sayeed">{{cite journal |last=Sayeed |first=Khalid Bin |title=Federalism and Pakistan |journal=Far Eastern Survey |publisher=Institute of Pacific Relations |volume=23 |issue=9 |pages=139–143 |issn=0362-8949 |date=September 1954 |doi=10.2307/3023818 |jstor=3023818}}</ref> labelling those who disagreed with his views as "Enemies of Pakistan". Jinnah delivered a similar speech at [[Curzon Hall]] of the University of Dhaka on 24 March <ref name="JSToldenburg" /> where Language activist [[Abdul Matin (language activist)|Abdul Matin]] stood up at the chair and shouted, ''No. It can not be''. Other students also supported him during that time.<ref>{{cite book |title=Ekusher Smriticharon '80|year=1980 |publisher=[[Bangla Academy (Bangladesh)|Bangla Academy]] |location=Dhaka |language=Bengali| page=113}}</ref><ref name="Banglabazar Patrika, Magh 30, 1399">''Banglabazar Patrika'', Magh 30, 1399 {February 12, 1993]</ref> Thus at both meetings, Jinnah was interrupted by large segments of the audience. He later called a meeting of a state language committee of action and overruled the contract that was signed by Khawaja Nazimuddin with the student leaders.<ref name="helal263" /> Before Jinnah left Dhaka on 28 March, he delivered a speech on radio reasserting his "Urdu-only" policy.<ref>{{Harvnb|Umar|2004|p=35}}</ref>