Bangla-centric

adjective

Emphasizing the Bengalis, their culture or what is in their language.

Meanings

adjectiveBangla-centric (comparative more Bangla-centric, superlative most Bangla-centric)

comparative more Bangla-centric · superlative most Bangla-centric · alternative Banglacentric

  1. Emphasizing the Bengalis, their culture or what is in their language.

    Mujib's Bangla-centric strategy created much bad blood against him and his party in West Pakistan.

    2004, ʻAbdurraḥmān Ṣiddīqī, East Pakistan the End Game: An Onlooker's Journal 1969-1971, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54
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    The right wing Islamic groups and leaders who disputed the Bangla-centric secular nationalism have been insisting that separation from Pakistan did not mark the end of a predominantly Muslim consciousness in Bangladesh.

    1997, Mohammad Rashiduzzaman, “Bangladesh: From a Nation to a State”, in Pacific Affairs, volume 70, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN

    Most of these criticisms of Nirad Chaudhuri are representations of other views expressed elsewhere: a 'gratuitous' use of literary references (63), a refusal to consider 'economic factors' in his interpretation of history (68), a Bangla-centric obsession with the 'decline of Bengal' thesis (106), […]

    2015 September 3, Ian Almond, The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Islam, Empire and Loss, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 17

Origin

Translations

Bengali বাংলাকেন্দ্রিক
  • বাংলাকেন্দ্রিক (baṅlakendrik)focused on Bengali
Dutch banglacentrisch
  • banglacentrischfocused on Bengali
Finnish banglakeskeinen
  • banglakeskeinenfocused on Bengali
French banglacentriste
  • banglacentristefocused on Bengali
German banglazentrisch
  • banglazentrischfocused on Bengali
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